Making Infrastructure More Friendly for Beginners
summary
Career path shows a concrete route from front-end into cloud-native infrastructure: learning Go and Kubernetes, contributing to projects like Kubernetes and Docker, and using Outreachy internship to build cred. Recommends reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications, writing paper summaries, and open source contributions as interview evidence. Notes a surprising shortage of entry-level infra listings and proposes hiring-and-training juniors plus a shadow on-call rota (junior shadowing experienced primary) to onboard safely and grow talent.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 0:43When Did You Know that You Wanted To Work in Infrastructure
- 9:39How Would You Recommend Someone Who's New to the Community To Network
- 15:06Contributing To Open Source
- 18:01Main Advice
- 22:46Resources You Would Recommend for a Junior Engineer for Preparing for an Interview
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