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the multitasking of having random events popping scared me I afraid to get stun locked, other than that the role sound cool.

AmaIng tips mate. 100% agree on specialising

DevOps is a culture not a position, in my organitzation we have platform engineers instead :D

which programming field would you recommend for a beginner?

I may think more or less the same like the Henry is expressing; however I have also observed that many of the cloud providers asks for several of their certification requirements to count with a minimum from 6 months to almost 1.5 years of experience using the tools, methods and practices on the certification they are applying for, and they enforce that by incorporating different kinds of labs and experience based scenarios ,that demand not just knowledge but practical experience to successfully answer the different set of questions. As a matter of fact, most of the medium to experts certification appliers indicates that those are though and challenger and you to have practical experience before even attempting to do the exams.

There are a few things certs do. And you are partially correct. Certs will not get you the job. But they will get you past the ATS and at least get a conversation with the recruiter. Certs give an individual a guided learning path. Someone can study for the cert but never take the exam, which in many ways is perfectly fine and what a lot of people do. Certifications give the hiring manager or interviewer a baseline of the level of knowledge you should have on a particular subject or technology. Having a cert however guarantees nothing. Not even knowledge. How an individual conveys their knowledge and understanding in an interview is what gets someone a job.

You should run for the president of the government, you are a smart person, you have all the credentials to be the right answer to the growth of disinformation

i have a pmp and scrum master and i'm unemployed

One caveat. Clueless recruiters and AI may exclude a person i.e the native French speaker because they dont have the Certifications.

This is wrong information... You cannot sculpt a piece of art without knowing thoroughly what each tool in sculptung is used for! In as much as one learns from building projects cannot compare to the fundamental knowledge you'll learn about the a technology from studying and practicing for the exams which will make you quickly understand and grasp the power of the technology when you start building your own projects. So people Certify yourselves then start building projects you will be formidable

I'm an Ex-Solutions Architect at AWS and a current SA at Microsoft. There's a lot of nuance to this and I don't think I would discourage anyone from taking certs. Yes, having a cert most certainly does not GUARANTEE a job (honestly, market condition is the biggest factor, followed by job experience), but I don't think anyone really thinks this, not in the current climate. But how do you get experience if you need experience to get a job? It's the classic age old question, and I know it was briefly mentioned in this video. For those without experience, certs are probably the best way to get your foot into the door. Personal projects can't be verified as easily as a cert does. When I interviewed at AWS, I had zero actual AWS experience and 4 certs to show. Granted it was a hiring boom then, but vs the pool of other candidates, I'm sure it played a big role in getting my name across HR. It was only after working at AWS for several years that I could pull off getting hired at Microsoft without any Azure certs.

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This is not true. Guys, as much as possible, try to get as much certs as possible. They would help you go past screening, expecially if you don't have much experience. I just got a new job cause I had 2 exact certifications the recruiter was searching for.

You need s job in order to really do anything. No one is doing a "project" that spans the world of developing IBM or SpaceX.

Singapore. No such thing as cloud engineer. U r paid to do devops, application support and maybe full stack.

Interesting.

I things certs are fine so long as you partner them with good projects.

certifications are useless with no portfolio, its like having a degree without experience.

ALSO another huge point is many certs if not all certs to some extent are extended marketing for a firm's own products. Why are all of Google's marketing tools certifications free? because they groom the next generation of digital marketers who are now comfy with the product and have only heard( and even studied/prepared/mugged/invested into good facts about google), thus ensuring Google's dominance over another generation of marketing and marketers. If you think about it, all DSPs and adservers are the same after a point (except niche cases), yet doing their certifications will make you feel like they are the next big thing.

Thank you for sharing this! As a nerdy Millennial who dropped out of college (due to the cost of classes), certifications seemed an ideal route for me...That was in the 2020's...but it's 2024

Can you make a guide on how to get a job the cloud industry. I’m a network engineer and I really want to get into cloud I have a few aws certs, but like you said in the video they don’t do much.

Certs are for getting through HR. Projects are for talking points for technical interviews

Main thing for certs is that they show commitment, standardised learning path, and a baseline knowledge. Which are good, especially for beginners.

Great video! There's no definitive right or wrong answer when it comes to certification. It seems your main point is that certification can be helpful, but it’s not the only path to success.

Let's say you forgo the experience and do projects instead at a job where you have 0 professional experience with AWS. How would you display that project experience in a way that actually gets you into an interview?

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This is not the case in the UK. You don't get certs to get a job, you get them to get past the recruiters who are laser focused on only finding these in a CV.. Once you're there you can then discuss your experience, show your github repo and so on.

Thanks for the video. I’m a self-taught web developer and it’s the same here - don’t have any formal qualifications or certificates and it’s never hindered me getting jobs over the last 3 years

That why you applied the certs to a degree program for credit or at least some credit, so it carried it's value.

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Hi, I have some questions regarding cloud computing? Is Cisco ccna a good foundational cert for networking knowledge. Which Cloud Provider will be in most demand in the near future. Does your degree and Which university you come from give you an edge when applying to Cloud Roles I'm doing Electronic Engineering at uni, but during the years I am also learning the cloud where I have my roadmap set out.

did you attend university, if so which? Im an aspiring Cloud Computing Professional.

I don't like code, so I'm trying to find my fit in tech without that so I can innovate on the side

I'm planning on changing careers and cloud engineering seems the way forward

I'm so glad you said this because I was hyped up for a while about cloud engineering until you said on call. I want my dedicated time off and I'll look for a role that doesn't demand that of me. You might as well work for yourself if you get pinged like that.

You also have to think about AI. I'm sure someday in the future, you'll be able to spend an hour spelling out a concept for a AAA game to AI and it will be able to build everything for you. It will have AI jobs that call AI jobs that manage AI jobs and shows you the progress. The same for business applications. The problem is that. right now, AI is REALLY REALLY GOOD at doing "wide" tasks. It could easily replace a Jr Software Engineer whose job it is to write functions that take xyz as input and outputs abc. What it CAN'T do is is create a fully developed solution like a Sr Engineer could. That function will likely take you several (or more) attempts (just like mentoring a Jr Engineer would) as context has to be provided and ensuring that all scenarios (even the 1%) are handled correctly and optimally. It's success drops as more 3rd party platforms are utilized (which is obviously ever increasing as applications are built upon other applications). What that means is that before too long we will have individuals with DEEP understanding of technologies USING AI to achieve things that DevOps and other wide/shallow/Jr Engineers do. That's great that you know 100 technologies, but guess what? AI knows them ALL. Learning new tech isn't going to get you there. Learning how to use and manage AI is what the future holds and that requires being able to "do it better" than AI can and be able to know enough to instruct AI on how to improve. You'll make more money knowing how to do one thing REALLY REALLY well than 100 things kinda well.

Thank you! I am an older software developer and was curious what being a DevOps REALLY meant. I absolutely have NOT worked for large companies (intentionally) so this is more speculation. Feel free to correct me where I'm wrong. Here are my thoughts. "DevOps" and "DevSecOps" is undeniably a very "cool" and "exciting" name, so it's no wonder that companies are jumping on the bandwagon especially with most videos promoting how fast projects will be completed and such. I don't know if the "only 50% of software projects get completed" stat is still true (and/or was ever true) but I can understand why that's appealing to top brass to get projects complete fast. Perhaps I am a dinosaur or am an exception since I have worked with small companies, but I still don't "get" the whole obsession with Kubernetes, Containers and such and building servers with code, etc, etc. I mean, I GET how cool and powerful it could be from a technical perspective, but being as I'm at core a businessman, it seems like massive amounts of endless work that never really pays off in the end for most small/mid size companies. Again, could be 100% wrong and maybe for large companies it's night and day, but this seems to be a core concept of being a DevOps engineer + using testing tools and such. Thinking through it, I have to wonder if these big companies have their "core engineers" that specialize as coders, DB admins, server specialists, etc and then have a whole bunch of DevOps at the top level. If this is the case, I would bet that those "core engineers" have it pretty good with an light workload and near guaranteed job security while the DevOps (despite any level of productivity they achieve) are expected to work at max levels and are always at risk of being let go. Why? Because by definition, DevOps people don't need to have DEEP understanding of anything and are expected to learn and adapt... so, how would someone with 10+ years experience be considered better than someone with say 1-5? Those Core Engineers can't be replaced because the difference between someone who KNOWS and Kinda-Knows is the difference between something working and complete disaster. College is the proof that "well rounded" doesn't really get you anywhere. I would imagine that DevOps engineers are only really good in a DevOps type of company. Smaller companies would expect you to "dig in" and improve things and build new things and that only comes from experience. If all you've done is write some code in basically some sandbox, when you are faced with a "blank page" needing to plan out a project with coding and database you'll just stare at it like you are trying to write a book. No interviewer is going to choose you for a Coding job where people have more experience coding, same for DB, servers, etc. Quantity of knowledge doesn't matter, it's DEPTH. My guess is that being a DevOps/DevSecOps would be great way to GET STARTED in IT. Get a wide net and cover a lot of bases and find out what type of stuff you like and don't like to do. Once you've found that, you then can migrate to another job (maybe at same or potentially lower pay) that focuses on what you love doing and then you can eventually get in a great job where you have security and a reasonable work schedule. My thoughts at least :)

When searching for a job, type in the word "cloud" and see what you get.

yeah, working with different peaple like for example remote manager from ..... which is capable to ask to 1st line support guy "what will be the business impact of a certain failure"....

Yeah we all know those certs don't amount to much

You forgot Linux, Python or Golang, Understanding Databases. Like SQL and NoSQL. DevOps, and Containers etc… and that’s just some of the fundamentals. Infrastructure as code like Terraform. And finally Security

Killer content! Learn the analogies and be able to explain Cloud concepts simply and you'll do fine as a DevOps or a Solution Architect

I've just discovered this channel and it's content is the best I've come across. I've been a Devops Engineer for over 7 years and Homebrew Henry is spot on about the role.

I've been a Devops Engineer for 7 years now and this is by far the best video I've ever seen about what we do.

just started my Python journey 2 days ago.😅

Buzz? You mean the money?! lol

Used to be called sysadmin

I'm a Devops and I think it is about to game over now. Because I don't see there''s no more openings for the DevOps jobs in my market since the last year. The fate of DevOps role is just like the EA role back in 2 decades ago. The Enterprise Architect thrived only a couple years (2005 - 2010). Then it sank forever. And I saw no more Enterprise Architect jobs available in the market in the past decade anymore. The Devops is on the same path as the EA now. So Devops will be history in a couple years later. Just a waste of time (I earned the title but no future to sustain).

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Well I have to admit that I really didn't want to sign in to TH-cam to write a comment, especially late. I used to just type - It's cyber/hack crazy right now, and though I am degreed and certified in Info security, that becomes questionable. Are hackers really hacking? Does this protection even really work? There will always be questions. This video is definitely useful. It helps me to realize, that no I am not almost done learning; it is only beginning, but sometimes the mind just needs a better way to receive the same thing it is not receiving well. Hey, if you like coding better, just code. If you are serious about somehow bringing IT Operations and Software/System Development into this Agile Framework/Waterfall or whichever other method - type deal, great. In IT, it seems to be the same thing, but you must add a little in-depth knowledge for a bigger smile. You code enough to get them off your back. You know enough about every system you must use and the types of professionals around you. Otherwise, you will get tired of cyber, AI, DevOps, ITOps - what is ITOps, IoT, IAM, the cloud and the rest of it. This just means, approach with a better type of energy. I mean I really do not want to learn AI. I am sick of looking at a new threat. Just fix perpetually resolve it, and no IAM not. Plus what is a Kube? Then I am crazy if I don't know. It becomes sarcastic and toxic afterwards. Good luck.