AI
AWS
Agile
Algorithms
Android
Apple
Backend
Bash
C++
Cloud
Csharp
Left side: A pristine O'Reilly book with an elegant wild boar illustration, promising the secrets to "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" with "reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems."
Right side: The same boar, but now sleeping on a dirty mattress next to garbage bins. The elegant theory meets the trashy reality.
Spent three months mastering B-trees and distributed consensus algorithms just to end up writing SQL queries that could've been figured out with a 5-minute Stack Overflow search. The duality of software engineering: expectation vs. the glorious dumpster fire we call production.
