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CI/CD bottom-up.

Merry Christmas! every Christmas is memorable when family gather together and share what changed during this year.

Happy New Year, and thanks for all the sharing.

Happy New Year...

that depends, YES, if I need to travel a lot in the near future, or I WILL WAIT if I don't need to travel much.

there are some resources I hope can help you: book:

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs by Eric Ries

Startup CEO_ A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business by Matt B

Startup: An Insider's Guide to Launching and Running a Business

lectures:

Startup Engineering [Coursera] [Stanford] [2013]

startup courses at YC

good luck to Brad, working in a startup environment may have more fun and motivation.

Merry Christmas

I think packages management tools, like apt, dpkg, yum, dnf, are pretty useful.

MIT's "introduction to algorithm" is very helpful in your case.

It depends, it is true if you always get the dirty works, like coding without much thinking, but if there are some innovation ideas come to your mind from time to time, life will be much easier, and your promotion will become easier.

Got promotion is not easy here, you need to be expertise in some technical areas, and pass promotion interview, there will be many questions from many experts during that interview, you won't be considered as qualified until every answer from you satisfies them, that is why many young engineers choose to leave in one or two years, there are not much chances for them, and even you are true expert, you will get frustrated.

but life is not that hard than you think, I have a Tencent's game engineer friend, he is a tennis fun, what I get from him is they have tennis activity every day, and he can go off work at about 6PM to play tennis 2-3 days every week.

and I heard some guys from google, they need the same long hours work and pretty stressful, just they don't need to stay at the same work place that long, they have the working place flexibility.

Come to Shenzhen, you will see, salaries like Tencent, alibaba, can offer are much higher than SV, in the conditions of you should be expertise in some technical area, and good background, like google, facebook, etc working experience. what they offer can be at least double companies, like google, facebook, can offer in the same technical level.

NZ is very attractive place, I had long planed to move into there, and one of my ex-colleague made it, he found one job in Wellington.

but my work is pretty low-level, high performance and chip level stuff, mostly with Linux kernel driver, and network, I encounter the same issue with you, jobs related there are raw.

I plan to start a startup there if there are proper chances one day. the most important thing for me is investigate that market, what may be the real requirement there.