How do you cope with burnout

Im at the point in my life where I can barely function In this field anymore. The constant change and grind. The occasional brutal oncall experience where you're trying to debug some k8s cluster environment at 2am.

I'm in my mid 40s and tech has been good money but also the biggest source of misery for me the last 20 years.

I've become obsessed with the FIRE movement and specifically CoastFi where I can just work some bullshit job for lower pay and let my retirement savings compound.

Unfortunately I don't know what else I would do for an occupation and I'm tired. Learning new things is not exciting anymore. Not sure if it's age related or perhaps I've always had lower IQ that's starting to catch up with me in my recent work struggles. Not sure.

How are people coping with burnout in this ridiculous field having to consistently adapt with the whims of the business and the Industry that I don't give too shits about anymore.

Has anyone benefited from antidepressants/SSRIs to fix their brain and keep the tech job going?

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our startup grew too fast and now our processes are chaos

When we were 5 devs, everything ran smoothly. Now we are 20 and everything is on fire. Jira setup is too rigid, Linear is too minimal for our needs and ClickUp feels like tough every time we try to customize anything. We desperately need a system which scales without turning into hidden columns. Something flexible, visual but powerful enough for complex dev workflows.

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Is it just me or is modern dev work starting to feel like playing Jenga with someone shaking the table?

Every time I fix one thing, something else breaks in a completely unrelated part of the stack. Half my week is just debugging stuff I didn’t even touch. Does anyone else feel like software used to be, calmer? am I finally losing it?

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Need your suggestion ASAP

I have 5.5 years of DevOps tooling, cloud and python/shell automation experience. Recently, I joined a product based company. They hired me as a devops lead. When I joined this company within the week they laid off product owner who hired me. 😓

Things went very south for me and team. Now senior manager ( who is a senior dev as well) asking me to learn c# and become backend developer because he thinks there is no need of devops.

In this company the cloud/infra team created their own tool for devops/infra provisioning stuff, which can connect to git repo and provision the infra and do the deployment in infra in single click.

If I choose to become a c#/.net developer I’ll be loosing devops track and if I stick with devops, I’ll not have much work to justify my position in team?

What you guys will do in this situation? How will you justify devops here?

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Desync Attacks: Request Smuggling's Evil Twin 🔗

https://instatunnel.my/blog/desync-attacks-request-smugglings-evil-twin

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GuardScan - Free Security Scanner & Code Review Tool for CI/CD Pipelines

Hey r/devops,

I've built a tool that may be useful for your CI/CD pipelines, particularly if you're implementing DevSecOps or shift-left security.

What is GuardScan?

It's a privacy-first CLI security scanner and code reviewer that you can integrate into your CI/CD workflows. It's designed to catch security issues before they reach production.

DevOps-Relevant Features:

🔄 CI/CD Ready:

Works with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI
Proper exit codes for pipeline integration
JSON/SARIF output formats
Configurable severity thresholds

🔒 Security Scanning:

Secrets detection (prevents credential leaks)
Dependency vulnerability scanning
OWASP Top 10 detection
Docker & IaC security (Terraform, K8s, CloudFormation)
API security analysis

📊 Code Quality Gates:

Cyclomatic complexity limits
Code smell detection
License compliance checking
Test coverage validation

🎯 Privacy & Control:

Self-hosted option (MIT license)
Code stays on your infrastructure
No external dependencies for security scanning
Works in air-gapped environments

Quick Integration:

# .github/workflows/security.yml
- name: Security Scan
run: |
npm install -g guardscan
guardscan security --fail-on high


Why I built this:

Most security scanning tools are either expensive or require uploading code to third-party services. For regulated industries or sensitive codebases, that's a non-starter. GuardScan runs entirely on your infrastructure.

Free & Open Source:

No subnoscriptions or usage limits
MIT License
GitHub: https://github.com/ntanwir10/GuardScan

Would love to hear how you're handling security scanning in your pipelines!

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Vendor could use an update

I've been working with a vendor that says they are "trusted by over 80,000 companies". Their tool is open source with a paid addon for enterprises. My org bought the software and now we have to set it up. So in the kick-off meeting I point out to their "Success Engineer" that they have installation guides for server and for Docker, but not Kubernetes. The Docker instructions include an example docker-compose.yml file and specific instructions on how to set environment variables with Docker, stuff about Docker volumes, etc. Very detailed. But they don't even mention Kubernetes on their website. I asked him if there was anything particular about Kubernetes I should watch out for, and suggested that having a guide written by them might be nice in the future.

He said, "We don't have a guide for Kubernetes because there's so many different ways to deploy it. We didn't want to be prenoscriptive." "Prenoscriptive" was the word he used. But like, if there's so many different ways to install the software on Kubernetes (there's not), wouldn't that be the reason why you'd want to be prenoscriptive? To offer your customers a baseline install they could work from?

The PostgreSQL docs they gave us were just their standard database install doc with "RDS" pasted in in a couple of places because we told them we used RDS. It says RDS at the top and suggests using gp3 disks, so they understand that we're using AWS. But then it has lines like "create or modify /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf" and provides full maintenance noscripts, shebang line and all, to put on the database server that doesn't exist.

The vendor has actually been great so far and their product seems solid, so no shade there, and luckily I'm a 10x engineer so I can translate all this as needed. 😁 It's just... if you're offering enterprise software in the year 2025, shouldn't you expect your customers to be using one of a certain common set of technologies and be prepared for that with documentation and experience?

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[4 YoE, Unemployed, DevOps/SRE/Automation Engineer, United States] Need Resume Advice
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How to Monitor MariaDB and ScyllaDB for a stress test Comparison

Hi! I want to show the performance benefits of ScyllaDB compared to MariaDB. How can I do this? I tried to write the code for it using Vibecode, but it was too complicated, so I decided to do it myself. The problem is, I don’t see much information about this, and I’m still too junior to know the right tools or how to write a Docker Compose file. Could you guys help me out? Even if you only know how to monitor one of them, that would be super helpful. Thanks!

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Anyone else getting way more take-homes in tech interviews this year?

Some say interviews are easier now, others say it just turned into unpaid mini projects.

One thing I keep seeing people say is that because of AI, companies are pushing take-homes since it’s supposedly harder to cheat compared to live coding.

Is this actually happening to you too?

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Career Advice Needed: Transition from Full Stack to DevOps? (40% Salary Increase)

Hi everyone, thanks in advance to anyone who replies. I need some career advice.
I’ve been working as a Full Stack Developer (mainly Spring and Angular) for about 4 years. During this time, we migrated from legacy Oracle technologies to a stack involving Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Bamboo. I didn’t just handle the code; I also worked on the infrastructure side alongside the DevOps team and set up pipelines. I should mention that I currently work for one of the largest financial institutions in Europe, and my salary is above the industry average.
Today, I interviewed with a hiring manager from another company. I originally applied for a Developer role, but as we talked, he liked my knowledge regarding DevOps and asked if I would consider a career path in DevOps instead. He mentioned they need someone with coding knowledge whom they can train/mentor in DevOps from the ground up.
I don’t have any pure DevOps experience. However, the salary they are offering is nearly 40% higher (in Euros) than what I’m currently making. I’m unsure if I should accept the offer or if I’ll be able to adapt to a full DevOps role. Thoughts?"

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How do you keep track of what you're doing?

I'll have project X that I'm working on. In incident will happen and I'll be sidetracked to Incident 1. Maybe another comes up as that one is ending, Incident 2. I'll go to sleep and before I know it just as I'm getting back to project X and now I'm on incident 3. This one may take days and so on. The issue is each of these incidents require fixes and work themselves. sometimes I don't get back to project X until 2 weeks later. It's like a stack of work and it's rather unpleasant.

It's not infra things breaking for the most part, it's developers breaking things or testing the bounds of things. Maybe their work requires a database resize but nobody brought us in so now we have to do it. Maybe somebody leaked a password and that caused an incident or theres a ddos.

how do you keep track of all of this? I've found if the barrier to entry is too high the notes wont be taken. so it needs to be quick and accessible. so opening up jira is probably not going to do it.

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AI coding subnoscription platforms seem like a waste of time.

I wanted to bring something up that's been on my mind for a while but couldn't find the right community for it (which it seems, going from similar results on google, that this community is the right place for this kind of post).


AI coding assistants are useless for actual -real world- projects, most of them can't handle having >500 files with thousands of lines of code. So they instead just seem to guess and make up solutions without any context, they're entirely useless and actively harmful to a project. I can't quite get why people use them.

As a test, I recently tried in one of these platforms (paying, so without restrictions) uploading a zip with a copy of a repo from my game, and asked it questions about it. It proceeded to successfully locate and identify the right files to seek context in... but its own internal python tools would truncate the file, causing to believe that the files actually just contained "..." past the first 100 lines.

As Linus Torvalds said, these tools seem great for "vibe coding" some quick feature or anything, but they are literally unusable for real projects because they can't even read the existing code base to contextualize what they're writing! Even the most inept junior of programmers knows to do control + f across a damn repo.

So, to anyone who has more experience with these tools than I do, what exactly has made them so popular with developers? Did I just have too high of expectations for these tools?

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Devops tools used day to day

What tools do you use in your day to day?
I want to transition from a developer to a devops role. I have little experience doing Auto scaling groups, ALB, ElastiCache, some CI/CD,, etc. Basic AWS things to my understanding.
I have made some small roadmap to myself like a platform engineer/devops but I would like to restructure it some something real that it's widely used in the industry.
Do you use mostly the console or CLI?
My plan include learning terraform, better and more advanced ci/cd than the basics I have in CodeDeploy and Jenkins, k8, advanced monitoring on cloud watch and servers, security configuration, aws cloud formation, prometheus, log analysis, docker, apache /nginx and server config.

My point is, do you usually use any of those concepts, tools on ypir day to day or at some point? which ones you use?

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Feeling under confident for DevOps transition even though experienced.

Hi Friends,

Apologies if I am not phrasing correctly

7 Years in Linux RHEL support, including Network, infrastructure support experience.

I am not able to decide which project I need to focus upon to get into the Devops job. I have done RHCSA certificate recently, also done Ansible training and built playbooks and a small project using Ansible Automation.

Done JNCIA cert also this yr and have good knowledge on network troubleshooting, protocols like IPv4, SSH, ARP, subnets etc and done some switch VLAN troubleshooting also. I get constant feedback from customer on resolving their problems in fast time.

I don't have hands on with CI CD, docker stuff as I have not built any project with these except few docker images build during Openshift training.

Currently working in Product company with good salary but no technical growth as same work repeats for past 7 yrs.

2025 has been good as I exposed my self into learning new technology like JNCIA Network, Ansible training done, Openshift Training, a little bit of bash noscript and created GIT branches.

Should I go more in depth into a single skill for DevOps or improvise on existing tech i recently learnt? Is there any project that actually gives idea about kind of DevOps work we get?

I also feel imposter syndrome ( maybe ) that it's something difficult for me, but somehow I feel this job is something along with my skills and way of working / style. ( I don't want to give up like in past i gave up my dream of coding / web development due to not getting instant results.)

Much thanks,



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Considering Chainguard but how lockedin is it?

We’ve been looking at Chainguard for container image security. From what I’ve seen, it’s high quality, minimal, and secure. They provide SBOMs and reproducible builds, which is great.
That said, a few concerns come to mind:

• Many of their images are built on Chainguard OS / Wolfi, not standard community distros.

• Once you adopt it fully, you might be tied to their ecosystem… tooling, update cadence, and base OS.

• Some advanced features, like hardened or FIPS/STIG-certified images, are part of their paid offering.

• Their packaging is limited to Wolfi or internally maintained packages, which could make migration trickier.

How easy would it be to switch to other CVE or image protection tools if needed? Open to any advice/discussion and sorry if there is stupid question i asked.

Thanks in advance.

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How Deployable Is a Model Like Orion-MSP in Real Pipelines?

I came across **Orion-MSP**, which attempts to bring in-context learning to tabular data using multi-scale sparse attention and a Perceiver-style memory unit. From a research standpoint, it’s creative. From a DevOps standpoint, I’m not sure how practical it is.

A few questions I’m struggling with:

* Does a model with multiple attention scales introduce too much complexity for versioning and deployment?
* How would you monitor or debug failure cases in something with hierarchical attention patterns?
* Perceiver-style memory adds flexibility, but does it make observability harder in production pipelines?

Would be interested in hearing from people who’ve deployed Transformer-style tabular models — does something like Orion-MSP feel operationally reasonable, or is the architecture too intricate for most teams?

(Links available in comments if useful.)

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How do you deploy laravel on ASG

I would love to know how people are managing laravel deployments running in ec2 in autoscaling group.
I have considered codedeploy.
I want something faster as envoyer.io
Also managing updates in .env file

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Arconia for Spring Boot Dev Services and Observability

https://piotrminkowski.com/2025/11/21/arconia-for-spring-boot-dev-services-and-observability/

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which ai coding agents did you guys drop because they caused more chaos than help?


i’ve been cycling through a bunch of ai coding agents lately, and honestly, some of them created more mess than they solved. at one point i had aider, cursor, windsurf, cosine, cody, tabnine and continue.dev. a few stuck, but a few absolutely nuked my workflow with weird refactors, random hallucinations.

curious what everyone else has bailed on. which ai tools looked promising at first but ended up causing more chaos than help?

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Anybody here work for Rithum / Channel Advisor?

They’ve been hard down for almost 20 hours now. They claim it’s a fuck up during maintenance but I’m concerned they got owned and encrypted.

https://status.channeladvisor.com

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