REMOTE (US) I'm hiring 3x Jr PHP Fullstack Engineers at Vultr for the Cloud Native team. I don't care if this is your first job. There's 1 technical interview.
Professionally:
Don't be afraid to jump jobs regardless of how scary that may be. You may have spent your 20s in a job where you've gotten comfortable and worked your way up but you've hit the ceiling and you may find it hard to jump ship and advance your career because you're scared. Don't be. Make the jump.
Personally:
Be happy, proud, and confident no matter your situation. Don't sacrifice family time for your career. Make your bed. Clean your desk. When you feel stuck, overwhelmed or discouraged, you need a "win" and it's best to take an easy win like beating a video game or finish reading a book.
Because you're approaching your 30s, you may find this advice tedious or nonsensical because you're just looking for a stack overflow answer that you can copypasta into your life that fixes everything or makes you rich. There's no magic pill or life hack that fixes your problems. Just be the best version of yourself and good things will come.
So what they're doing is adding a option to Scylla's yaml configuration so Scylla can literally be a drop-in replacement for DynamoDB. No updates to your existing code. Scylla can be downloaded and installed on pretty much any server, so what this means is you are no longer shackled to AWS. Just deploy a Scylla instance anywhere you please, configure it to emulate dynamo's API, point your existing application that normally uses Dynamo to it, and you're up.
My current company has a monthly AWS bill of $100k. C-level people get concerned that all their eggs are in one basket. Also Dynamo is EXPENSIVE when you start scaling. We have been looking into making our applications cloud service agnostic, and Dynamo is a huge blocker.
Scylla is a far superior database anyway, so I think we're going to begin trying this out.
https://www.vultr.com/company/careers/