It's that time .... again... Amazing how time fly's

Lets talk Goals....

Work goals

In one more week, starting on Jan. 9th, I will hand over the crown to the next group. Working exclusively with a billing systems, for the last six years, has its ups and downs, but it's time to move on.

I will start a new position doing more of a development/devops role, as opposed to only development, in mid-January. This will give me a bit more power and control when it comes to getting things done, I hope...

I will need to discuss with the team and come up with some standard tools we maybe using. The current company is dealing with a monolith however we have idea of pulling pieces out into external services where it make sense.

Ideally I should be getting more experience with

  • AWS and all the Cloud nonsense when it comes to the operations.
  • Kubernetes
  • GoLang
  • Ansible / Terriform
  • Jenkins ( have some experience using this many years ago )
  • Sevelte
  • Maybe spend some time learning more modern c++ 20 things... professionally however off the C++ ship many years now...

Anyway, def. excited about the move. The team is fantastic and we will learn a lot from each other.

Personal Goals

Currently im working with a small business brainstorming ideas about how they can run their mom and pop shop a bit better than their current process. I can't go into too much detail just yet since this has just started however it will be fun. I maybe integrating with a an awesome digital kiosks with a pretty kickass api. A lot of cool stuff will be in the works I hope.

When it comes to health, I manged ride over 1500 miles last year according to Komoot. Huge accomplishment. Going to try to keep up the pace. Getting into biking has been an amazing experience. So much I attempted to apply for a software job with specialized bikes, unfortunately they did go with another candidate due to my lack of experience being a platform engineer. Need to get up to speed on this modern development..

Fun Development stuff

Last year I spend a good chunk of time building things with Quarkus. It has been a pleasure working with this framework. Got really familiar with Apache Camel. Definitely will be applying this to the current job. Super excited to see what Quarkus 3 will entail.

Another Version 3 im really excited to see being worked on... SDL3

I will be following this project religiously. I fell from the gamedev scene but hopefully get back and active in the next year or so. In the mean time this will be my nightly reading. A lot of work currently being in in the main branch... Those guys are rockstars and are on fire atm.. hopefully the heat continues....

Anywhoo... this is getting pretty boring. If you have any new years recommendations, please let me know...


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