@david_spark@mastodon.social avatar david_spark , to random

15 years at one desk. I thought I was part of the infrastructure. Turns out, I was just a line item in a spreadsheet.

I’m not bitter, I’m just... recalibrating.
To my fellow grey-beards on Mastodon: How do you keep your edge when your daily job is maintaining 10-year-old monoliths?
I'm currently practicing with a System Design simulator just to see if my brain still works. It's humbling.

A three-panel digital illustration for software engineers. Panel 1: An older, experienced developer with a white beard sitting in a dark office with a neon sign saying 'LAYOFFS INACTIVE'. Panel 2: A cute but stressed pixel-art monolith monster being moved onto a Kubernetes cluster, labeled 'Monolith on K8s - Hype vs Reality'. Panel 3: A futuristic blue interface showing a 'Global Rate Limiter' system design diagram with characters discussing 'Saga Pattern' and 'Consistency'. At the bottom, a small logo for jobsniper.pro.
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