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