I'm just now putting two and two together, but I now realize that I saw Carlos talk about his haproxyctl project at the Pasadena meetup last month. He projected enthusiasm and earnestness in a way that had me grinning from ear to ear. This is a major bummer.
> In our industry a lot of young IT professionals use the term “burnout” as a badge of honor.<p>That's me, but I feel the burnout at the same time. On one hand it is me who is addicted to working, and on the other hand I just can't start thinking that doing more would allow me to work on something more interesting, like a mad scientist trying to solve some mystery. But half of what I do are break-fixes, and can't even start working on real devops, gaming changing practice. The culture - devops, building practice is part of my job, but often I don't see me doing that...my responsibility exceeds my title, my role right now, which is great for career growth. I don't know man...<p>I'm 23.
I just read <i>The Phoenix Project</i>, the book mentioned at the end of the article. It's an entertaining look at what DevOps is supposed to be like, based on things happening at various real enterprises.<p>The main character takes over an IT organization that's way behind on deadlines and experiencing one major disaster after another. He gradually transforms it with better practices, until everybody's living a stress-free, balanced life, <i>and</i> they're delivering much better results to the business.<p>These two things don't need to be in conflict.
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