Specialize or Bounce Around?

It’s been a minute since we last gathered around the water cooler, as Allen starts an impression contest, Joe wins said contest, and Michael earned a participation award.

For those following along in their podcast app, this episode’s show notes can be found at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode153.

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Gather Around the Water Cooler

• Go deep on a single language? Or know enough about many of them?
• Who is hiring for remote work?
  • Remote job resources:
    • Datadog
    • DataStax
    • Microsoft
    • Facebook
    • Amazon
    • Github
    • GitLab
    • Twitter
    • Confluent
    • Elastic
    • MongoDB
    • Netlify
    • Heroku
    • remotegamejobs.com
    • Hand-picked remote jobs from Hacker News – Who is hiring (RemoteLeaf.com)
    • remoteok.io
    • Stack Overflow
  • What companies are in your top 3?
• Know your storage technology. What it excels at and what it doesn’t.

Resources We Like

• DB-Engines Ranking (db-engines.com)
• Search Driven Apps (episode 83)
• Amazon CloudSearch FAQs (aws.amazon.com)
• Kubernetes Failure Stores (k8s.af)
• The Uber Engineering blow (eng.uber.com)
• Datadog and the Container Report, with Michael Gerstenhaber (Kubernetes Podcast from Google, episode 137)

Tip of the Week

• Automated Google Cloud Platform Authentication with minikube.
  • Be careful about how you use ARG in your Docker images. (docs.docker.com)
• Calvin and Hobbes the Search Engine (MichaelYingling.com)
• 11 Facts About Real-World Container Use (Datadog)
• Tips & Tricks for running Strimzi with kubectl (Strimzi)

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