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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by thrashh on Sunday November 07, 2021 @02:19AM (#29137259)
There’s a huge gap but at the same time, each layer is still very similar to each other.

Hardware engineering might be floor 1 of a building and microservices might be floor 19. Yes, they are very far apart, but one day, you realize that every floor has a bathroom. When you go down to floor 1, you might not know where the bathroom is but you know that it exists and how it will probably function. You are already 80% of the way there.

Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by aprdm on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:01AM (#29139955)
Yes absolutely. I’ve worked from chip design in vhdl to coding microservices and devops. It’s IMO all the same shit with different flavours.
Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by anitil on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:10PM (#29145538)
How have you worked so far up and down the stack?
Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by aprdm on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:42AM (#29149728)
Many different jobs and hats over the last 11 years. Roughly half of my career in each
Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by jeffrallen on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:37PM (#29142137)
Hardly.

The shitter of microservices is JSON marshalling. The shitter of hardware is clock jitter.

Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by desi_ninja on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @07:06PM (#29169308)
Really well put analogy