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I had to leave some detail out because of the 2k character limit, which is that though I'm happy at my current job, I also feel somewhat at loose ends.

Your point about there being plenty of not great jobs is well taken. As you can see from option (1) in my list, I often lean that way myself.

Thanks for the insight. I have often wondered if there is a space between the companies operating very large data centers and those running small businesses. In distributed systems, my own experience is:

- the very large organizations will engineer whatever they must to meet their availability/performance targets - the mid-size orgs will use whatever they can from the big orgs to work in their area of competence - the small orgs are happy with the basics

There may well be a middle ground that I should explore more.

Thanks for the servethehome.com reference. I'll try to learn from his approach.

I would also say, having worked a company of smaller scale trying to solve distsys problems, that they're hard to sell. But the distsys skill set does seem (to me) marketable at the large cloud providers.

There are definitely companies at smaller scale that work on these problems. I would say that the only time it really feels solved to me is if the scale is very large.