John Dunkin is the pilot you refer to. Do you think that he should be excluded from the job based on his Trump affiliation - or are there specific things he lacks that would mean he would be unsuitable for the job?
It appears that Mr. Dunkin has decades of experience as a pilot and has no previous affiliation with the FAA.
Good point. And I think that is an important consideration.
However, to be clear, he does have smaller scale management experience - most likely consistently, but at the very least during the Trump campaign.
Perhaps he would be wrong for the job, but certainly there are examples of both experienced and less experienced/inexperienced persons doing awful jobs at the helm of agencies, companies, and even countries.
I would also add that being in charge of such a massive organization often means you do not get to make off the cuff or unilateral decisions so easily as you would, say, at a 50 person organization. You do certainly get to steer, but there are many other hands on the wheel.
As for you being CEO of MS, Satya is doing a decent enough job + I know nothing of your background and you come off as under confident in your ability to do the job. So I'll go with no :p
That's an odd assertion. This particular guy may or may not be the guy to run the FAA, I have no idea on that. But I do know that he runs an airline for a massive multi-billion dollar corporation with multiple aircraft and crews.
Claiming he has no management experience is simply false.
Even someone who is not in that kind of position, but a major airline pilot, has significant management experience simply by virtue of the position. They're not like fighter pilots alone and unafraid up there flying around for fun.
You're in a burning house and people are shouting at you to get out, and your response is "you sure talk about this fire a lot, I'm gonna take your advice with a grain of salt."
I think it makes sense to just stick with what you know, unless you have good reasons not to. But since you asked (and mentioned Elixir), Phoenix live view or https://github.com/grych/drab.
> Every possible best pattern and practice (including the ones that were still a few years away) I'd already done them and perfected them.
Care to provide examples of the patterns? Genuinely curious
> I was so high up on the peak of the C# mountain that recruiters could no longer understand me, employers could no longer understand me, co-workers could no longer understand me
What sort of things were you saying that led to people not understanding you? I can't imagine knowing a language so well that others can no longer understand me
Not the OP but I can maybe guess at some of the examples. In Java (and I assume C#) because you don't have a powerful enough object system, you end up having to write contorted code often making extensive use of various "design patterns" in order to support testability, the SOLID principles, not having to rewrite a bunch of existing code, and so on. So much of that melts away when you instead write in a FP style, or use a more powerful OO system (like CLOS) or use a dynamic language. I've worked with people who couldn't describe the most commonly used patterns in Java (Visitor for instance) or techniques (e.g. "Dependency Injection") but also people who seem to think everything should be expressed with them, including those that are obsoleted by modern Java features.
He used to (maybe still does) work for Google and write Java. Thus, likely making him adept at both languages. C#, from what I understand, is his passion though
I would have said Heroku. But it doesn't appear its as straight forward for your stack as it is for others. However this looks promising: https://github.com/emk/heroku-buildpack-rust
I would have also suggested https://nanobox.io/ - but their pricing is no longer transparent (used to be pretty cheap). It would also involve dockerizing your app.
As for clever cloud, their Rust support is in beta...
I'd spend a short amount of time on Heroku though, if all goes well that's the best option for an MVP IMO
It appears that Mr. Dunkin has decades of experience as a pilot and has no previous affiliation with the FAA.