00:00 Intros02:45 Dave's book, Linux for Software Engineers03:00 Why we wrote the book06:10 Office Space Movie09:00 Apple and the AI movement12:00 How Companies change14:14 Slow down to speed up16:00 Slowing down - testing a hobby project18:20 Promo from Staff Engineer to Staff Engineer21:05 Day to day as a staff engineer22:30 Resources for learning to be a staff engineer23:50 Jr vs Sr Engineer Troubleshooting techniques33:45 Observability Engineering (book)39:57 Designing Data-Intensive Applications (book)48:00 Cloud vs. on-prem infrastructure49:25 Cloud vs on-demand metal55:00 Cloud sizing pain1:00:00 Engineering large systems1:06:00 Cloud, web scale, and big data

Matthew Sanabria joins me again to talk about the hobby, industry, and career sides of "tech." I had covid when we filmed this, so I look and sound awful. Hope you enjoy!