I was an engineer for 15 years and have been a tech presales for 4 years now. You couldn't be more wrong.

Best engineers making the best product ever will not make a dollar without good sales people and marketing and product managers and VC and ... You need ALL of these to make a succesful company.

This has been my experience as well. Some word of mouth counterexamples exist yet are not the norm.

I think it's especially hard to appreciate sales+marketing since they seem so ephemeral while tech is concrete. Sadly there also also too many examples of marketing getting too far ahead of the product, over promising, or devaluing engineering.

Best is definitely a balance, where all sides respect others' work and can see both the effort and its benefits.

Marketing/sales is fine. As long as they sell what we have, not a pie in the sky that we might at some point in the future have.

Your company "saves" over 100k/month paying WAY too much for EKS, which is extremely expensive.

If you're at any decent scale (looks like you are), then switch to GKE, or switch to on-prem and buy some hardware + a Kubernetes distro like Mirantis/Openshift/Tanzu.

Heck, go run k3s on Hetzner and you won't have that much more work, but save literally millions at the scale you're talking about.

> Heck, go run k3s on Hetzner

The moment Hetzner starts providing managed DBs or managed kubernetes, they will wipe the floor with all the big 3...

EKS is $0.10/hour, how is that "extremely expensive"? Or are you referring to an adjacent service?

what about glass pipes encased in said metals :-)

Glass-lined vessels and pipes are already used in the chemical industry so it's a somewhat proven technology.

Not sure if it's suited to the chemistry and temperatures (and radiation) of a molten salt reactor, but it seems like an interesting technology.

Add March 5th to June 2nd...

August 5th.

A lot of them get this stock option every year, meaning after 4 years, you can easily have 480k vesting over time... (120k already vested after 4 years, 360k more to come in the next 4) etc...

Someone in the twitter thread probably discovered why: Apple Podcasts apparently asks to rate the app after each podcast now. So people think they're rating the podcast, not the app. Nice manipulation right there Apple, they can even claim plausible deniability, it's brilliant actually

- Go to https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/workshops/ and create a free account (the workshops are run inside of your own kubernetes)

- Do the container 101 hands-on workshop (bottom of the page)

- Do the Kubernetes 101 hands-on workshop

- ???

- Profit! build and deploy applications on ANY kubernetes (not just GCP)

And then look into the GCP specifics for k8s (GKE), networking, DNS, load balancing, storage, monitoring, etc...

I pay 55-58 percent taxes in Belgium. Im pretty happy with how our system works and what they provide. But I do know they could easily get this number down if they would just do everything more efficiently. Never gonna move for it though.

Don't you feel sometimes that the amount of tax you're paying is not equivalent to what you are getting in return in terms of infrastructure, education or healthcare ?

I guess the bigger the wealth, the less you rely on whatever the government does with the taxes. What you're interested in at that point is how does the government treat people like you (financially), high taxes? more regulation? etc etc.

I have So Many customers running Spring Boot Apps on embedded tomcat on Windows server.

And since I've been trying GitHub Actions, I don't know why you would need artifactory, nexus or this aws service anymore. Github offers private repositories, releases, project pages, cicd through actions and Microsoft is offering plenty of deployment options on Azure with AKS or plain Azure Compute