Open Up The Cloud

Maybe I'll just pin it to my profile ... ? 😀

Nice breakdown @travisdotmedia youtube.com/watch?v=qYXnTZ…

Who is up for some Kubernetes in march?

OH BABY IT IS HERE - WHOS IN? cloudresumechallenge.dev/blog/take-on-t…

young me studying for my A+ back in early 2020 lol

Cloud vendors will have education content and learning paths, so why is there a need for independent content creators like me to bother? We need someone not drinking the company Kool-Aid. We need training not editorialized by product marketers. We need real-world and practical instructions. We need mix-and-match best-in-class services. Otherwise, who's going to teach you how to run your primary workload on AWS while using Azure Microsoft Entra for identity management and GCP Big Query as your Dataware house? Best-in-class only works if you can go across the cloud and not stay in a silo.

@samikhan_27 What role do you work in / aiming for?

@samikhan_27 Very enterprisey ! 😀

Musing on what YouTube video topic to do next. I want to do more about platform engineering, Kubernetes or Microservices... is there anything in those topics that interests you? What are you working on?

@KhairulAfhamMY 👊

@openupthecloud love this!

AND WE BACK BABYYY! It's been some time, for sure, but we are back on YouTube. Wanna learn Kubernetes? Into AWS? Here's a way to get up and running on AWS with Kubernetes and Terraform. Check it out 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=C_GU4o…

@r3vsh3ll Nice ! You do have to crack out the old keyboard for this one and follow along. Would be happy to hear what questions you have, and maybe I can cover them in a subsequent video.

@openupthecloud Welcome back! This looks good. Added to watchlist for breakfast viewing. 👀

@_nancychauhan @loujaybee Eyyy, glad you liked it, Nancy!

@openupthecloud Wow ✨️👏 amazing @loujaybee

@sholawa What are you working on these days?>

@sholawa yaaaaay, welcome !

@ayvhieel The project still exists, and you can work on it, the idea flopped though. Those who joined didn't have enough fundamental knowledge to begin on the project, sadly. We did some introductions to python, git, and others. But we never really got to the project, sadly.

@openupthecloud Just seeing this. Is this still available?

I'm always being asked for project ideas and for mentorship... So... here's an opportunity for you if you're looking for a cloud project, and some networking opportunities. If you're willing to put in some work, and show up, read on (well, listen too... you get the idea).

@Dev_LuluLets Thanks for sharing, @Dev_LuluLets !!

#FactsOnly 🙌🏾

If you change your mind every couple of months on your goal, you get scared, you lack conviction, you stop getting your head down and building valuable skills, you'll be right back at square one. The timeline becomes infinite. Have the courage to be convicted.

It's critical that when you are getting into tech that you build and carve out a path for yourself. You simply cannot be looking over your shoulder 24/7 and getting distracted. If you keep going, keep pushing in one direction you WILL be successful. It's a matter of time.

This is like going to the gym. Watching fitness videos is good for motivation, etc but you have to do the work. A couple hours, ideally every day, but at least a couple times a week is what you should aim for.

One thing is for absolute sure though, if you're not putting your butt down in your seat on a regular basis and doing DEEP learning, e.g. fingers on keyboard, producing output, you're simply not going to progress.

How long to land a job in tech? Days, weeks or months is hard to give an answer to... I'd say around 10-20hrs of intense learning for ~a year is in the rough ballpark. Could you that into 3 months? Maybe? Could you get lucky? Sure. Could it take WAY longer? Absolutely.