I lost my job. Part 1.

Teo Choong Ping — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 10:28:27 +0000

I love what I do.
When I thought I finally get the hang of what I value I am bringing to the company and my colleagues -- my company crashed.

My gratitude journal is full of thanks for the work I was doing -- we must have done something right.
My passion is to build the stuff that delivers value to our users.
My job is to build software engineering teams and build digital product features.

Along the way, I built trusts and make friends.
Good working software is the side effect of having a healthy team relationship.

You heard of, "if you want to go fast go alone -- if you want to go far, go together"?
It is all true.

We haven't got around to deploy a big ass Kubernetes yet but we did build a lot of cool stuff in Node.js, Golang, and Elixir.
Serverless is damn cool -- we have a solid plan to strangle our internal services with more serverless.

Water under the bridge.

But I am not looking for a job now.
I lost my job, and I lost myself.
I am searching for me.

I started two journal topics since then bad news -- one on the resources to handle tech interviews.
And, a list of retrospectives.

Let me know if you would like to read more of my journey back to the new exciting world, and my learnings along the way.

Keep safe.
🙏🏻😊

11 Essential Skills Software Developers should Learn in 2020

Teo Choong Ping — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:01:04 +0000

Be a Cloudnative - allocate about 6months to a year to be good in this area -- it is not just about dockerizing your apps, https://thenewstack.io/10-key-attributes-of-cloud-native-applications/
Be Functional - start writing FP, pick one: Clojure, Elixir, ReasonML, F#
Strive for Progressive Delivery - this is not new but makes more sense than ever in 2020, https://thenewstack.io/the-rise-of-progressive-delivery-for-systems-resilience/
Figure out Blockchain and Web Monetization - the progress in this area is crazy, start here https://webmonetization.org/
Decentralized application dev -- it getting bigger, check out this easy tutorial, https://hackernoon.com/tutorial-build-a-versioning-system-on-ipfs-77lvx2geh
Master VSCode -- Vim plugin!
SQL Trees - will make you smarter https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8355/Trees-in-SQL-databases
AWS -- you just couldn't avoid this, start small -- deploy something to ECS.
Machine Learning -- don't delay, allocate around 6 months for this, https://course.fast.ai
Get good at Shell (Bash) programming -- shell scripting is very powerful and easy, see this web server in shell
Zettelkasten method, be good at learning- https://www.seanlawson.net/2018/02/use-zettelkasten-method-scientific-note-taking/

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I lost my job. Part 1.

11 Essential Skills Software Developers should Learn in 2020