I feel like so much happened in the last 2 months. Phase 2 of our migration got significantly delayed, I can't help but feel that this was because everyone was spooked when things didn't go smoothly during a practice run where another engineer and I were both on vacation... In the free time that we suddenly gained, there was a lot of work on polishing up the automation for things, mostly in Go because the first part I wrote in Go.
Then came 3 weeks off trying not to think about work. I thought I could get some open source stuff in, but it was not to be.
The second half, I joined a different team, thinking it would be: "work on reliability for the monolith". It ended up being more: "work on release engineering for the monolith". I think I've had enough staring at CircleCI and Node/NPM for a few years.