DevOpsDays Boston 2023 Lightning Talks: Muyiwa Kolayemi
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A farmer-turned-engineer describes concrete parallels: learning via AWS restart, moving from planting cassava to building automation at slon build, and using observability metrics like CPU utilization to forecast system health. Seed quality becomes code quality — pipelines include security checks to prevent committing AWS keys. Pest control maps to threat detection and soil testing maps to performance testing. Adaptability, resource management and constant safety awareness are the transferable practices that actually made the career shift work.
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