> > 3. Designing systems in general. Some people love the challenge of distributed transactions, eventual consistency and all that jazz, but it just rubs my brain the wrong way. I'm not interested at all in that problem space [1].

>I'm not sure I understand this issue. I mean, kernels have subsystems for doing stuff; you might need to design one someday? But it won't be dull-as-dishwater web technology stacks, it'll be you writing data structures directly in C/C++ or Rust if MS goes there.

Ah, I meant designing distributed systems. Like, figuring out the difference services, storage requirements, databases, then planning out the infrastructure. It's really not my cup of tea. I do enjoy designing systems/subsystems/components as long as they're within a single host :)