After five years at Oracle, I got thoroughly fed up with BigCo bullshit and have switched to an early-stage startup at a friend’s recommendation. This will be the fourth company I’ve worked with him at over the last ~20 years. It is *so nice* to get back into days that are filled with code instead of meetings, and with a tech stack I like to boot (java, linux, postgres, AWS) as well as some tasty new things to explore. (I typo’d that as explode at first and let’s be real, that’d work too for technology.)