But they require to be placed on a separate server, and come with their own infra management.

Is the idea of this project to embed this into you app, instead of relying on .env or an external vault?

However there are some good nuggets in this article like this one: "That’s when I realized: we’d built a dependency on one person’s specialized knowledge. And that knowledge had nothing to do with our actual product."

I see that at more smaller orgs, where they want to have technology X but fail to realize it requires a small team. Not because its a 3 man job to operate but because if 1 leaves or is unavailable the knowledge is gone. The knowledge can be acquired but it takes some time, and that in between period can be painful. When you tell them that and then they start to calculate the costs, it can be sobering.

The advice to keep the tech boring and widely embedded in the organization is something I agree with.

Can this not be a opportunity for new entrants to start serving the other market segments?

How hard is it to start and manufacture memory for embedded systems in cars, or pc?

“Scrum works … if it is being properly implemented and followed.”

Sure that is with almost everything. In addition if you need an army of scrum coaches to implement scrum and you see many failures in the industry isn’t it time to rethink the process how we create software?

Maybe scrum isn’t the solution but just a stepping stone that came after waterfall.

The scrum guide 2020 doesn't mention story points at all.

I don't know how to fix this. But maybe we should just go back to plan in hours..

Overal I am very happy with it. I would recommend it.

Good: - I like that with Otel you can build a vendor agnostic architecture. By that I mean you could easily swap visualization tool and you are not depending on a vendors own agent. - It works. - lots of plugins, receivers, processors and exporters. - run it as deployment or run it also as agent you can get k8 metrics.

Cons: - Documentation can be improved. There is the website and then is their GitHub repo. To me it feels like the website only explains the architecture and some components, but to implement it you need to read the readme and values.yml in the GitHub repo from the various receivers and exporters. - for some it this might be a con. It doesn’t have a ui. Like Calyptia Core

I haven’t tried the auto instrumentation. That is still on the to do list.

Going from Amsterdam to Spain the plane seems to win on price and travel time.

One thing that isn’t infrastructure but could easily be improved is buying international train tickets. So often I see that one needs to call or you can only book one month ahead.

Surely we could have solved that by now..

After looking at the OP website I was already thinking this is what I want. However after learning from you that I could also type "cal" in the terminal, mind blown.

Thank you to both of you!

However with his experience as a CEO, CFO. He might want to look into becoming a Data Engineer, BI consultant, Data Scientist or Data Analist.

With the experience you mentioned he might be better at understanding how the “business” thinks and what they need. Therefore a lot of his domain knowledge could be applied while being in a technical role.

Most of the roles I mentioned involve some programming but often that can also be drag and drop tools.

Good luck!

Micro transactions work right now but maybe tomorrow it is subscription based gaming again.

- take time off, 3 months to a year. I took me a year before I was back to full capacity.

- use the time to find out what caused the burn out. Lack of autonomy, workload, own expectations or unable to say no. I learned that it is alright to ask others for help in this.

- realize that you are a human being, a person. In other words you are not your profession.

- this sounds soft but write down what are your values in life. Ask your self have you lived your life up until now according to those values?

- exercise. This can be short walks, bike ride, gym or CrossFit. The brain is complex but simple enough that exercise seems to reboot the system and help you to manage any stress. For me at least.

- take it slow and don’t set expectations too high. Depending on how burned out you are recovery might take a long time. Just like a burnout has been building up over the years, recovery doesn’t happen overnight.

Finally, if you do need to get back to work go from 1 hour a day to 1 day a week and build it up from there.

Could be that your vision and theirs might not be that far apart and you have a new project to tailor your job. But do write it down…

If the job is exactly what you do now and you don’t like it. Then it is time to apply for other positions. From my own experience I know that sticking around will not make you more motivated or happier.

It is okay to switch within 2 months, 6 months or a year.