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Hack&Lube · 07-11-2022, 05:24 PM

I'll forward you our developer application, mostly .NET background required. This is also the first time I've ever heard of MERN.

We are looking to get into K8s now.

FanIn80 · 07-11-2022, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Shazam

Let me check with the other boss. I have a bunch of work but we've gone apepoop with the hiring recently so I'm not sure how much budget is left.

Yeah no worries at all. That would be amazing.

FanIn80 · 07-11-2022, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I'll forward you our developer application, mostly .NET background required. This is also the first time I've ever heard of MERN.

We are looking to get into K8s now.

That's awesome! When you say .Net, do you mean old school like ASP.Net or newer-school like .Net Core?

MelBridgeman · 07-11-2022, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by FanIn80

Yes!

I currently have these three courses lined up in my Udemy account:

I also have these two that I would love to get to

I have a docker course that's about 80% finished, and I've actually built and deployed (stored in a private ECR and deployed on build via CloudFormation) a couple of containers used in larger projects.

I have not yet ventured into Kubernetes (which, from my understanding is a a different container management system... like use Docker or use Kubernetes... although I seem to remember reading that Kubernetes can work with Docker images, so it might be more than just a container service?). It's on my radar as something I want to learn though. I've got years of virtualization experience in IT, not to mention supporting multiple end user environments, and so the idea of containerized dev environments as an onboarding process or even just faster project spinup in general is right in my ballpark of things I'm interested in.

(sorry, I kinda rambled a bit there)

Once your done Graphql than the real prize is Graphql federation since things are
trending micro services these days

K8s is just orchestration and can manage a docker ecosystem.. in fact pretty sure it was defacto circa 2018

FanIn80 · 07-11-2022, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

Once your done Graphql than the real prize is Graphql federation since things are
trending micro services these days

K8s is just orchestration and can manage a docker ecosystem.. in fact pretty sure it was defacto circa 2018

Yeah, that's awesome. I've been wanting to do micro apis awhile now. I have a course on micro frontends btw, so it's not just the backend that's split up, which is really interesting!

https://www.udemy.com/course/microfrontend-course/

Thanks for the info on K8s. I get it now, and yeah I'll learn that for sure. On the Graphql federation side... is Apollo "supergraph" the thing to learn? (https://www.apollographql.com/docs/federation/)

MelBridgeman · 07-11-2022, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by FanIn80

Yeah, that's awesome. I've been wanting to do micro apis awhile now. I have a course on micro frontends btw, so it's not just the backend that's split up, which is really interesting!

https://www.udemy.com/course/microfrontend-course/

Thanks for the info on K8s. I get it now, and yeah I'll learn that for sure. On the Graphql federation side... is Apollo "supergraph" the thing to learn? (https://www.apollographql.com/docs/federation/)

Apollo -> Yup that’s what we use and Netflix

i hate micro front ends but that’s just my opinion .. i want to limit the number of services we have so front ends where the first to go!

FanIn80 · 07-11-2022, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

Apollo -> Yup that’s what we use and Netflix

i hate micro front ends but that’s just my opinion .. i want to limit the number of services we have so front ends where the first to go!

Haha, that's fair!

kermitology · 07-11-2022, 06:34 PM

Dang.. we just filled our last developer position. Though, to be frank, I was looking for Jr. Developers and you're definitely not that. We may have more positions come up though, send me a PM with your LinkedIn.

McG · 07-11-2022, 06:46 PM

Pm sent.

FanIn80 · 07-11-2022, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by kermitology

Dang.. we just filled our last developer position. Though, to be frank, I was looking for Jr. Developers and you're definitely not that. We may have more positions come up though, send me a PM with your LinkedIn.

Absolutely! I mean, I have junior moments from time to time if that helps.

afc wimbledon · 07-11-2022, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by photon

Today I learned what a MERN stack is

Today I learned that there is something called a MERN stack, I don't know what it is though

FanIn80 · 07-11-2022, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Today I learned that there is something called a MERN stack, I don't know what it is though

https://www.mongodb.com/mern-stack

I find it really great to work in. After years of having "quasi-MS SQL DBA" in some of my job descriptions, I find working with NoSQL to be... just really nice. Like a freeing kinda nice. Also it's a JS/TS stack, super lightweight (although, like anything can get bloated with packages - I'm a "package-minimalist" myself). Really quick to spin up and deploy. You don't need heavy IDE like VS (I use VS Code instead).

Lots of good things. Especially if you go the TypeScript route, which gives you strong types and interfaces etc.

afc wimbledon · 07-11-2022, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by FanIn80

https://www.mongodb.com/mern-stack

I find it really great to work in. After years of having "quasi-MS SQL DBA" in some of my job descriptions, I find working with NoSQL to be... just really nice. Like a freeing kinda nice. Also it's a JS/TS stack, super lightweight (although, like anything can get bloated with packages - I'm a "package-minimalist" myself). Really quick to spin up and deploy. You don't need heavy IDE like VS (I use VS Code instead).

Lots of good things. Especially if you go the TypeScript route, which gives you strong types and interfaces etc.

You may not realise or mean it but now you're just ****ing with me

Locke · 07-11-2022, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by FanIn80

https://www.mongodb.com/mern-stack

I find it really great to work in. After years of having "quasi-MS SQL DBA" in some of my job descriptions, I find working with NoSQL to be... just really nice. Like a freeing kinda nice. Also it's a JS/TS stack, super lightweight (although, like anything can get bloated with packages - I'm a "package-minimalist" myself). Really quick to spin up and deploy. You don't need heavy IDE like VS (I use VS Code instead).

Lots of good things. Especially if you go the TypeScript route, which gives you strong types and interfaces etc.

Ummm....'Thats what she said?'

FanIn80 · 07-11-2022, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

You may not realise or mean it but now you're just ****ing with me

Oh, haha sorry. I don't know why but I always thought you were a dev or at least dev-adjacent.

afc wimbledon · 07-11-2022, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by FanIn80

Oh, haha sorry. I don't know why but I always thought you were a dev or at least dev-adjacent.

I'm a retired youth worker and foster dad, not even in the dev neighbourhood, that said I have several foster kids who have gone the code monkey route and are doing very well, one lad has just sold his app for 250,000 not bad for an ex crack dealer!!

photon · 07-11-2022, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by FanIn80

I have not yet ventured into Kubernetes (which, from my understanding is a a different container management system... like use Docker or use Kubernetes... although I seem to remember reading that Kubernetes can work with Docker images, so it might be more than just a container service?). It's on my radar as something I want to learn though. I've got years of virtualization experience in IT

Docker itself is commonly used to refer to either the container runtime (the thing that takes container images and instantiates a running container) or the Docker CLI (which can be used to both build images and manage the runtime).

Standards have kind of taken over to the point there are different container runtimes and image building tools other than Docker.

Kubernetes is how you would orchestrate multiple containers to work together to provide a service. You could create your stack in different pods (the thing you work with in Kubernetes, each pod has one or more containers) that talk to each other inside the cluster. You can do high availability, load balancing, service discovery, storage provisioning, and all kinds of things in Kubernetes.

agulati · 07-11-2022, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Locke

I didnt. I read that whole post and felt my eyes gloss over...

Just the guy we want to do our taxes.

surferguy · 07-11-2022, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I'm a retired youth worker and foster dad, not even in the dev neighbourhood, that said I have several foster kids who have gone the code monkey route and are doing very well, one lad has just sold his app for 250,000 not bad for an ex crack dealer!!

Is the app an easy way to score crack?

GirlySports · 07-12-2022, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by FanIn80

Absolutely! I was working remotely for a year and a half at the position I just lost. In fact, I've never once been inside their office from interview to hire to... well, ever.

What about something like upwork? I think devs get hired on there, even some CPers hire from upwork I think. Competition is high though and the money might be low at first but it would be like running your own side gig while you're waiting.

I did a quick search looks like there's a lot.

https://www.upwork.com/nx/jobs/searc...n&sort=recency

Example: https://www.upwork.com/freelance-job...84c5ef29d4de4/