To me engineer is anyone that counts before the implementation. Even if it is back of the envelope calculations.
Two developers came requesting a Kafka partition topic scale-up. One of them knew how many jobs per second his workers consume, how many messages per second were going thorough the cluster, etc. The other did not. One acts as an engineer the one does not.
You wanna be an engineer? Easy, learn how to count. And to give a pass to those who don’t, counting is not easy. Most likely you will get it wrong, you might be counting the wrong metrics, etc. But counting makes all the difference in the world.
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To me engineer is anyone that counts before the implementation. Even if it is back of the envelope calculations.
Two developers came requesting a Kafka partition topic scale-up. One of them knew how many jobs per second his workers consume, how many messages per second were going thorough the cluster, etc. The other did not. One acts as an engineer the one does not.
You wanna be an engineer? Easy, learn how to count. And to give a pass to those who don’t, counting is not easy. Most likely you will get it wrong, you might be counting the wrong metrics, etc. But counting makes all the difference in the world.