I had an offer to work as a systems engineer in the DMV. The recruiter told me the salary range was between 160k-230k. I told the recruiter upfront since you contacted me about this opportunity I would like the base salary to be 200k even.

I don’t want to fire my realtor but it looks like I have no choice house has been on the market almost 90 days and there’s been no motion. Can’t have that.

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There needs to be more immutable container options. Cuts down the attack surface. AWS has EKS bottlerocket distro which is good, but they don't support other distros. I wish AWS would work w/ Talos Linux which has great security because you literally don't access the shell.

DevSecOps grew from 40% adoption to 75% in 2 years Security isn’t an afterthought anymore. It’s integrated from the start. Learn security scanning and shift-left practices.

Had a whiteboard session with my boss going over system design definitely think the same way on a lot of concepts specifically HA and automation.

It’s Friday I’m busy but not over the top busy today. So for anyone that wants to know what it’s like working as a SRE or a DevSecOps engineer ask me something you want to know.

These job titles are always interesting 🤣

Please don't call yourself a backend engineer if you haven't read this book. The secret behind how Google runs production systems.

old my boss I setup a kind cluster on a single VM and deployed a mini app for test automation using gitlab CI CD I built onto the kind cluster within my namespace he told me come out of third gear we’re building small orchestration & I’m like where’s the fun in that 🫠

I always wonder why architects don’t always account for local storage capacity. It irks my nerves seeing partitions of useless data sitting on system designed for orchestration. Can’t build what you don’t make room for.

It’s always raining in south Florida. Miami it rained nonstop now Orlando it’s raining like crazy. This is trash 🚮

“so you work 70-80 hours a week on your startup?” “yes, dave” “just to avoid working 40 hrs at a normal job?” “that’s correct, dave”

"So you quit your $300k/year job?" "Yes Dave" "Because they asked you to commute to the office twice per week?" "That's correct Dave"

Need to brush up on salt stack.

Project done fully automated gitlab server with a gitlab runner VMs using ansible and a k8s cluster to deploy test apps from my gitlab pipeline👨🏾‍💻

🤣 I need another computer

I don’t do coke

Moved from Miami to Orlando and I hate it 😭 but I’m going to make the best out of this situation.

Bottom be prepared to demonstrate real value as soon as you start, don’t play around.

Which I just finished that up now I’m thinking about adding security checks for check next commits and using api’s to kick out notifications for jobs so you get the notification via email, & slack.