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I have a cousin in Belgium who was laid off following some restructuring and her severance was 52 weeks. Not out of the goodness of the company's hearts, but mandated by law since they gave no notice and she had accrued seniority. US labor laws are a joke in comparison.

I recently flew between Oahu and Molokai. My return flight was delayed seven hours. I literally could have paddled a canoe home faster. Mokulele deserves all the negative press it gets.

Location: Oahu, US

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Not really

Technologies: Go, Java, Terraform, AWS techs(lambda,ecs,dynamodb,aurora,etc), Postgres, Redis

Résumé/CV: available

Email: samvanryssegem@gmail.com

1.) In the US regulators will step in and for someone to be considered a software engineer something like the FE and PE exams will have to be taken.

2.) The above will drive a larger wedge between high and low earning software workers.

3.) A heatwave in the subcontinent will kill over a million people, sparking the first mass migration.

4.) Western politics will trend to more conservatism and isolationism.

5.) Grab or Gojek will be worth as much as Facebook is today.

6.) A $100 Billion tech company will get it's start in Africa.

Location: Portland, Oregon

Remote: Yes, strongly preferred

Willing to relocate: perhaps

Technologies: Java, Go, Postgres, Docker, AWS(various)

Resume: on request

Email: samvanryssegem @ gmail.com

Competent backend generalist with ~5 years experience.

It depends, if it's just you and you want to get to market quickly building your web app and backend in Rails backed by postgres and redis is still a solid choice. Put your code in docker and have AWS' ECS Fargate manage it, do the same for your DB(Aurora) and cache(Elasticache). I can't speak for mobile devs, but it sounds like a lot of the hype around react native and whatnot has died down.

A bigger org I'd probably just change the backend code to Go and start taking advantages of other AWS products to manage ETL/monitoring/logging/etc. The change to Go is mostly just to prevent your more 'clever' engineers from producing code that no one but them can understand. Languages like Clojure and Scala while cool can start causing real problems in an org where the experience level isn't uniform.

A note on tech that bears repeating, if it isn't going to be your differentiator then choose boring building blocks.