Since infrastructure is a crucial part of companies and has little wiggle room for error without impacting a lot of users, how does one gain experience? I find devops and infrastructure to be interesting, and involves a lot more critical thinking than regular application programming, but it seems every job opening for it requires at least some if not years of experience. I'm currently an applications developer (full stack).
There's a post almost every other day on the front page praising Haskell. I've currently been learning it myself for a few months now, and was just wondering what do people (who are proficient at it) not like about it?
So I'm going to London Startup School soon and I want to use this opportunity to talk to some people about my idea and validate it (or convince me it's not worth pursuing, equally valuable). Is it polite to try to start conversations like this or will people think it's selfish to bring up your idea when you've only just met?
