I’ve been in your shoes. I found three options to work (in worst to best order):
1) I become an “overnight expert” at the expense of my work life balance and frankly the system architecture long term
2) Pushed back on management with tangible risks: a rough estimate to implement is XX and we are not confident in the solution so that could result in rework cost or worse long term scalability/maintenance cost. We propose outside (could be another expert on another team) consultation to close the risk gap.
3) We need to reassign resource X who is our most knowledgeable in adjacent tech, this takes them off feature Y and we will do a spike of duration Z to verify our approach.
When you do #3 enough your management will appreciate you using existing resources, providing the trade-offs, and you will also up skill that person.
The discipline for program management on the government side is shit and as a result contractors can be too. Some in a malicious or wasteful way. SV startups don’t operate with that mindset (during their scrappy phase). It’s just two ends of the spectrum. There is opportunity it’s just not going to produce these headlines.
I’ve always been interested but confused by these concepts mostly trying to understand people’s intent. On many websites with logins we create our identity, but have to “validate” it against an email one time token. Me claiming I’m someone famous on most websites is, mostly innocent, and mostly not trusted. However, how do we verify real world identity to key pair? By some centralized authority we have trusted to “validate” said identity, aka public key infrastructure.
So, at best case we have some proof that our key is created/controlled by “me” via a trusted channel but not a centralized authority. Do I upload a video of me showing my public key to the world and upload to some hosting site? Could a deep fake me do that too? Then of course the gpg web of trust model comes to mind, if we attend key signing parties and sign each other’s keys we can verify through associative trust vs centralized trust.
Or is really the point to not have a real world to key identity linkage at all, for “privacy reasons,” and we just all do our business online with full anonymity?
This is exactly it. LinkedIn harasses you to turn this on every time you launch the app on your mobile. If you have their number in your contact list and you enabled this setting.
I don’t know about Android, but in iOS you can see if you have enabled access to contacts. It’s also totally feasible your contact info is in their phone and they enabled it (email address).
Google isn’t interested in truth, they are interested in information. They are provide a search engine not a truth engine.
Sarcasm aside, how do we propose they determine what is truth? If we assume the internet is full of information and more truthful than not, then Google’s assumption could be accurate. Of course they do try and solve this with the knowledge graph and expert curation. Connections to verified information might give validity to that information, but not always.
Depending on the industry you are in, it could be an attractive credential. As a hiring manager it’s not what I use to determine proficiency or possibility of success, but lots of our contracts require them.
If you are using it to learn it’s not a bad tool to learn unless you have some pet projects you want to try out on the platform of your choice.
I’ve been working with AWS for the last 6 years and have been certified for the last 5. I learned new things through certification, but my practical experience tells me where the sharp edges are.
When you do #3 enough your management will appreciate you using existing resources, providing the trade-offs, and you will also up skill that person.