WordPress backend is PHP, so it makes sense to use the same language throughout. I've been doing PHP professionally for a long time, and as long as you know other languages (which you do), you surely won't get pigeonholed into PHP roles forever.
IMO the question is not whether you should take a PHP job, it's whether you should take a job building a hosting control panel. Is that type of work something you're interested in? Do you want to become an expert in web hosting? There are lots of companies in the web hosting space, so it could be a solid career domain, but not if it's super boring to you.
I am assuming it would just be REST apis and micro services right? Won't be much different from building any other backend. Is my assumption correct or does the hosting platform backend work any differently?
I was told they serve billion request daily, but I doubt the control planes api would be handling such scale daily.
I mean if I take up this job my next job would not be in the same domain. I don't have much interest in webdev, but this role also provides the infra exposure so I thought of interviewing.
Also wouldn't using Java or Golang make more sense here if the scale is such?
Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison didn't even get into tech until their 20s, but they definitely were/are not 'cool' or 'normal' people. The tricky part about your question is if you're looking at billionaires, you're not going to find a ton of relatable people.
It might be apocryphal, but my understanding is that he did this less out of a sense of civic duty and more because the skilled tradespeople liked their existing lifestyle and did not want to work in factories much, so they needed a big raise to be convinced.
I think it's even simpler than that: To run an assembly line, you need all stations staffed at the same time. You can't run the line if you're missing staff for just one station, but you still have to pay all the people who did show up.
So the easy solution is just to pay a lot and threaten to fire (and possibly blacklist) anyone who no-shows. Since the pay is much higher than they can get elsewhere, the people are much more likely to show up.
The high pay probably also helped find people who would tolerate the extremely intrusive practices of Ford's "morality police" (my term), who would inspect worker's homes to ensure they were living "the right way".
My hypothesis is that the average person does not really need or want more software. Decent consumer-facing software exists for virtually any use-case you can think of. The bottleneck is free time and attention not lack of software.
I do essentially both: robots.txt backed by actual server-level enforcement of the rules in robots.txt. You'd think there would be zero hits on the server-level blocking since crawlers are supposed to read and respect robots.txt, but unsurprisingly they don't always. I don't know why this isn't a standard feature in web hosting.
> By renting you simply choose to pay a monthly fee to a business that will provide you that same property but will take on all that risk instead of you.
I think the issue is that for many people it's not much of a choice since they can't afford to buy housing. It's pay a landlord or be homeless, and some form of shelter is necessary for humans.
The "$47,000 transgender opera in Colombia" for example was a production of an award-winning opera that the US Embassy in Colombia sponsored. It's diplomacy.
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