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Re-education

During my professional career I have held many different roles. They all have required certain level of education which I have mostly acquired through self learning. While somewhat related there has been quite a spectrum of what I have done. But one thing has remained my core competence: infrastructure management.

Despite having done that over two decades I think I have had to learn it over and over again. Unlike the other things I have done it has been evolving so fast that the cutting edge from five years ago is current industry standard and ten years ago it didn't even exist. You just need to keep up the speed or fall out.

When I started it was about managing the actual server hardware and networks. Soon those were mainly virtualized. Then came the containerization and while it's still settling in we are already moving towards the serverless world. The pace is just accelerating and I don't feel I can keep learning ever faster. Quite the contrary, I think I'm already slowing down. How many more revolutions can I survive anymore until I become hopelessly outdated. Luckily I have my experience from sales, management and architecture for when the time comes. At least I'm not giving up yet.