seeing a "Senior Distributed Systems Engineer" job posting without any specifics about the day to day work and i know deep inside that this is a kafka based analytics pipeline, as ever
time to pull out the classic post
Operations Skills: PRIMARILY KAFKA AND CASSANDRA BUT I CAN MAKE ANY SORT OF PREDICTION AND HAVE IT IGNORED BY ANY TYPE OF BUREAUCRACY
@tef reminds me of when I was at the FT and saw this nugget from the New York Times: https://www.confluent.io/en-gb/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-york-times/
We all looked in horror, and were thankful that whilst our architects were doing CV driven design, they weren’t that imaginative.