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The AI hype collapse is going to be insanely painful for everyone. Brutal times ahead.

Atlassian fired the engineer who built their infrastructure. His response? He revealed the entire playbook 👀 Vasilios Syrakis just dropped a 38-minute breakdown of 8 years inside Atlassian. What he actually covers: -How he survived the interview gauntlet at a company that runs Jira and Confluence for half the planet -Building an Open Service Broker from scratch that every internal team at Atlassian depends on -Why he picked Envoy proxy over every other option and how it handled traffic at Atlassian scale -The AWS infrastructure blueprint that kept services running for 24 months straight -Load balancing platform extensions that nobody sees but everyone relies on -The mentoring playbook he used to level up junior engineers -Personality conflicts at scale and how he navigated office politics without getting crushed -What actually happens when you maintain software for years, not sprints This is not another day in the life vlog. This is 8 years of infrastructure decisions, political battles, and technical depth you will not find in any course. He walks through XDS Control Planes, machine image creation, edge compute logic, and how to handle concerns from 50 different dev teams without losing your mind. The diplomacy section alone is worth the watch. Most engineers think code is the hard part. Code is easy. People are the bottleneck. He breaks down exactly how to resolve conflicts, maintain software long-term, and survive in a massive org without burning out. If you build backend systems, work at scale, or want to understand what senior engineering actually looks like in production, this is mandatory viewing. Save this post. Watch the full breakdown. Learn from someone who built the pipes that power Atlassian.

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