#039 - Get promoted by being lazy feat. Dax Raad

In this episode, Lane talks to Dax Raad, a well rounded engineer that is currently a developer for SST, a framework that helps people build Full-Stack applications on AWS with ease. Today, they talk about personal opinions on industry practices, scale, financial decisions, infrastructure mistakes, reflections on long-term company commitments and many more!Learn back-end development - https://boot.devListen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fmDax's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thdxr(00:00) - Introduction (00:51) - Dax's Tweets and Personal Branding (01:31) - You have to learn to be yourself (02:56) - Intrusive thoughts (03:33) - When did Dax become active in the Tech Twitter scene (06:30) - What was the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon (ZIRP) in the tech scene (09:33) - Should people choose fun early in their career? (12:22) - Lane's take on the expertise when abstracting (14:15) - SST's Philosophy in regards to abstractions (16:35) - Merging roles (19:28) - People don't want to care about the cloud (21:31) - Less stressed about work = better results (24:10) - Managers vs leaders (25:20) - Dax shares stories about managing vs leading (29:36) - Did Dax ever have users? (31:24) - Most Startups Fail (32:09) - Dax's reason for joining startups (33:25) - Staying at a company for decades (35:53) - Main downside of staying at an established company for a long time (36:34) - The World changes, so don't look at how already established companies do things (37:57) - Scale has a different meaning for different companies (40:07) - So much goes away when you have less people at the company (41:51) - Sometimes not saving money is a better option (43:35) - Moving off Stripe (46:54) - Rolling your own payment processor (49:05) - Which debate on Tech Twitter annoys Dax the most (50:52) - Stored Procedure debate (53:31) - What's a BIG mistake in the infrastructure space? (57:31) - Kubernetes (01:02:58) - What Dax misses from Google Cloud (01:03:19) - Is Sundar Pichai a bad CEO? (01:04:51) - Where to find Dax