alt Hacker NewsI know that "resume-driven development" exists, where the tradeoffs between approaches aren't about the technical fit of the solution but the career trajectory. I've seen people making plain workstation preparation scripts using Rust, only to have something to flex about in interviews.
I'm not surprised even in the slightest that DevOps workers will slap k8s on everything, to show "real industry experience" in a job market where the resume matches the tools.
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there are alsp people with devops title that do not know anything else than the hammer, and then everything is a hammer problem.
I mean, I worked with people who were suprised that you can run more applications inside ec2 vm than just 1 app.
Your first example sound very sensible to me?
Using new technology in something small and unimportant like a setup script is a perfect way to experiment and learn. It would be irresponsible to build something important as the first thing you do in a new language.