New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Am I Doomed as a Dev?

Ask HN: Am I Doomed as a Dev?
4 by MassiveBonk51 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I have 4 years of experience doing microservices using spring boot, Kafka etc at a large financial institution. However I'm running into trouble when I try to apply for jobs. Everyone wants experience with containerization and public cloud. I basically never got a chance to do this at my job since everything is hosted on-premises using VMware's Cloud Foundry. I have been working on learning all this stuff but I just keep getting rejected because I don't fit this checkbox professionally and it feels like I wasted 4 years. Where do I go from here?

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