I went back to school in my early 30s.

I have a coworker who went back in his 40s and is changing careers (from tech lead to management). And another who is nearing 50s who just wanted that piece of paper. (IT guy who wanted a fine arts degree)

Probably overkill and I agree with you.

K8 is for scale. Like managing a whole fleet of servers. Even with my devops team, it’s quite a lift to suggest it to someone who is getting their feet wet.

I did a double take at that $4000 budget as well! Glad I wasn’t the only one.

Well to be fair, American companies did that too. They expand their services internationally “for free” and then get other countries hooked on it.

China is just taking a page from that playbook.

Explain how good trains will help our precious CEOs?

Unless you mean a private train line paid with government funds. Now we’re talking!