I agree, I left software dev 10 years ago. The previous 3 decades were a golden age - we went from working with wild-west code and flat files to modular programming and databases, then object-oriented programming, then the web came along and brought another wild-west period, then came millions of packages and frameworks du jour. When I left a giant wave of all that was just curling overhead but hadn’t crashed down yet. Now if you don’t use 47 libraries to make a web page with a button on it you’re not a software engineer lol.
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoHonestly, I’m glad I didn’t get sucked into the big tech vortex a decade or so ago. Much happier working in biotech these days.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 days ago
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
What are you doing? I’m with scverse, doing single cell stuff.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Oncological genomic sequencing cross-correlated with clinical patient outcome data to improve cancer treatment targeting based on real world patient outcome data. Personally, I work on data pipeline stuff.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I hope pipeline stuff is better than when I started. I (not so) accidentally played a big part in revolutionizing my field by building anndata and scanpy. Then I tried doing it again by writing sequencing stuff in Rust, but was too early / too bad, but now that’s happening too!
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I’m personally playing with the idea of putting together a POC to transition our “foundation” data warehouse from PSQL to a graphDB, because the extensibility and maintainability of our current system is fucking awful. Like, some upstream entity gets a version bump and there’s like 5 systems we have to go through and add columns to various tables and occasionally fuck around with joins and so on every single time there’s a new piece of data we want to integrate. And we have no capability to scan back historically and evaluate our holistic state at some particular time index, which can be really helpful for some applications.
Anyways, I’m fucking swamped at work so haven’t touched that at all, but I’ve wanted to explore that idea for well over a year and a half at this point.