liquidchicken

Location: OKC, OK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies:AWS, CDK, Kubernetes, Postgres, incident response, myriad "DevOpsy" things

Résumé/CV: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/083RF-fth1DRTl5zdMZsrItNQ... or https://www.linkedin.com/in/doddschris/

Email: chris@focusfire.net

I'm an SRE / Tech lead / infrastructure goblin covered in scars from discovering many of the sharp edges of AWS and distributed systems over the years. I've worked in both the enterprise and startup-land, having spent the last several years in SaaS, helping orgs scale from thousands to billions of requests per day with tech, process, and engineering leadership.

Right now I'm most interested in the climate tech sector, but am happy to learn about any role with potentially positive social and/or ecological impact.

Location: OKC, OK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies:AWS, CDK, Kubernetes, Postgres, incident response, myriad DevOpsy things

Résumé/CV:https://www.linkedin.com/in/doddschris/

Email: chris@focusfire.net

I'm an SRE / Tech lead / infrastructure goblin covered in scars from discovering many of the sharp edges of AWS and distributed systems over the years. I've worked in both the enterprise and startup-land, having spent the last several years in SaaS, helping orgs scale from thousands to billions of requests per day with tech, process, and engineering leadership.

Right now I'm most interested in the climate tech sector, but am happy to learn about any role with potentially positive social and/or ecological impact.

We had an escalation to "the expert" on an Azure product one time and the guy's response to one of my questions was literally "I don't know, that isn't in the PowerPoint I brought."

I feel like what we should be working towards is an integrated "problem-solving"-based curriculum. The test-based stuff has us stuck in "memorize these things" mode.

For most kids, math is way more interesting if you can move past generic formulas and into real-world use cases. I remember continually asking math teachers "And what would I use this for?" and never getting an answer which left me super-frustrated and uninterested.

Instead of breaking them out into different "tracks", integrating math, logic, and CompSci into existing courses might produce some interesting results.

Did MS ever even run an advertising campaign for Windows Phone? I don't recall ever seeing commercials or web ads explicitly for Phone. There were some that referenced it in the vein of "Here's a thing, and another thing, oh... and also this phone thing.", but I don't recall seeing anything else.

I've come away from some of these types of books with some good tidbits, but have a hard time recommending them, especially to a young person. They tend to be a gateway drug into a culture of "The secret to making money is giving me some money." that I'm not comfortable with. I'd be far more comfortable recommending something data driven like "The Millionaire Next Door" (regardless of how that book is marketed) that highlights things like frugality, saving, and hard work.

I was really thinking about the vSphere integrated container stuff, but yes, that's a good point.

My bad, lesson learned.