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So one decision I made was to become more hands-on again when I joined @GetYourGuide. I know it is still early, but it has been... interesting... (not in the Firefly sense).

@GetYourGuide After having spend the last 4.5 years at Zalando with high to very high meeting load, just sitting at a desk, coding away at a computer required a bit getting used to.

@GetYourGuide It sounds funny, but I really missed the bits and pieces of human interaction you get at the beginning of each meeting.

Then, maybe two weeks ago I suddenly realized that I could really dive in and get some work done each day, and that I had almost forgotten how that feels like during the highly fragmented days of an Engineering Manager.

So on the one hand it is a bit scary how much time it can take to fix some bugs (especially me being a bit rusty), but then again, the overall speed and progress is quite comparable. I mean how much really gets done in a one hour meeting?

And I was also surprised that it feels like I‘m continuing just where I left off 4.5 years again. Maybe because I am now working again with event data, but I am again parsing JSON, keeping GB in memory and trying to make things fast.

So on the one hand, there so much more stuff like Kafka, Kubernetes, and so on. On the other hand, I‘m still copying XML configs from the Internet together to get a sane logging setup.