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Then you will end up turning it off to run databases because the vendor wants bare metalAround and round we go!

Medical device companies like medtronic and st jude are dinos when it comes to IT. Only one doing interesting stuff is GE that ive seen. The hospital systems are even more ancient. The only insurance provider doing interesting work that ive seen is UnitedHealthcare, others like humana centene...

Hah, there are some real big data applications out there but a lot of truth in that statement. This is why I switched to NoSQL 2.5yrs ago or so, solving real distributed and uptime problems is more fun. Now if the markets would just recover so we can go public~! 37000 shares of pure nothing...

This sounds either like UHG or medtronic given the MSP location. Though lot of dinosaurs outside of Target/BB up there.

Selling futures can cause some ugly legal/finance problems for tech companies. You should see the disclaimers I have to put in my technical decks on not-GA stuff.

I agree the hiring decisions are made for dumb reasons however the lack of understanding of even the basics of the OS and hardware interaction (hell the concept of IO!) is rampant in even very senior engineers these days. So frustrating as it means explaining it over and over on why what they...

Rabbit is kind of going out of style lately, Kafka is the defacto on many new builds due to scalability/resilience. Honestly most new architectures should be built around the queue with it being the "source of truth" with multiple data layers and applications ingesting from it. One stack I am...

I have a MS in CS, pretty sure it got me my breakthrough job due to the preferences of my boss at the time.

My wife is due June 3, crazy stuff. Baby measuring 97%ile in size at 33 weeks, so expecting a big one

Question, you talk about data warehouse design but what is the actual goal of the project? I used to work at Teradata but have moved on to a OLTP startup. I would caution against lockin on AWS if your future state may end up onprem, GCE, Azure, or another platform as well. I notice you...

Agreed, longevity can also be a big negative particularly at traditional enterprises. I see a lot of LinkedINs in St.Louis that are Current Role , been there since they graduated school. Not usually the brightest bulbs even if in senior roles.

Hard to moonlight being a Director level (getting people leadership experience is a focus for me right now). Would be a good way to keep technical skills sharp, going to be kind of hard with the wife expecting in 3 months however

I am dealing with career wunderlust, it is really frustrating. Whenever I get to where I aimed the first thought is "whats next?". For me, I want to break out of Architecture individual contributor work and be a decision markertype who is still technical but am struggling to find anywhere to...

We had an awesome Aruba thing planned (refundable thankfully) and had to cancel it. Then it spread to Florida and we just gave up

Well this is ruining my chances of taking a quick beach vacation before kid #1 is born. Not taking my pregnant wife to the Caribbean or Florida with even a .01% chance of this shit.