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Ask HN: How to best catch up / learn about AWS and GCP

2 points by NikolaNovak 8y ago

I've been a sysadmin and infra architect on a very legacy project for last decade. I'm aware of AWS, GCP, and have my VCA (working on VCP), but want to really dive into it in an orderly fashion and progress my theoretical and than practical knowledge. I tend to be a bookworm - I like to learn about a topic and get the general framework figured out in my mind, before starting to hands-on-keyboard mess around it. My preferred way of learning a new topic is a big book or seven on a beach - but some topics seem to move too fast for that. I've explored Udemy/Pluralsight courses, and Amazon books, but am concerned these two platforms may move too fast to be captured in such a static way. Is there hope? :) Many thanks!

NikolaNovak 8y ago
For what it may be worth, my background is as PeopleSoft Administrator - Unix/Linux, DB2/Oracle, Tuxedo/Weblogic, peppered with bash/Perl, some network design and diagnostic, and whatever else is needed in service of the PeopleSoft vertical stack. This would put me squarely in the HackerNews-Dreaded category of "Enterprise Software" :=> I'm in serious danger of moving from technology architect to middle management, and while I'm eager to learn more about people and get better at facilitating productive teams (etc etc etc;), I don't want to lose track of my core passion - and feel I may need to "reinvent myself" soon, lest I go in the wrong track via inertia... Thx all! :->
baldgeek 8y ago
https://www.edx.org/school/aws https://www.edx.org/school/aws 3 courses with hands-on exercises, and you can't beat the price either. They are also run by AWS Tech Training staff. I finished the "building" one, and I'm looking at starting deploying soon
QuinnyPig 8y ago
Pick a single platform, and implement a small project. serverless-stack.com is decent for this. Amazon has well over a hundred services, but an awful lot of them will never apply to what you're working on. You're right-- any print book is out of date by the time it hits stores.
btian 8y ago
AWS and GCP have certifications too. GCP - https://cloud.google.com/certification/ https://cloud.google.com/certification/ AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/certification/ https://aws.amazon.com/certification/ Personally I just learn whatever I need for my current task by reading documentation and sample code.

2 points by NikolaNovak 8y ago

NikolaNovak 8y ago

For what it may be worth, my background is as PeopleSoft Administrator - Unix/Linux, DB2/Oracle, Tuxedo/Weblogic, peppered with bash/Perl, some network design and diagnostic, and whatever else is needed in service of the PeopleSoft vertical stack. This would put me squarely in the HackerNews-Dreaded category of "Enterprise Software" :=> I'm in serious danger of moving from technology architect to middle management, and while I'm eager to learn more about people and get better at facilitating productive teams (etc etc etc;), I don't want to lose track of my core passion - and feel I may need to "reinvent myself" soon, lest I go in the wrong track via inertia... Thx all! :->

baldgeek 8y ago

https://www.edx.org/school/aws https://www.edx.org/school/aws 3 courses with hands-on exercises, and you can't beat the price either. They are also run by AWS Tech Training staff. I finished the "building" one, and I'm looking at starting deploying soon

QuinnyPig 8y ago

Pick a single platform, and implement a small project. serverless-stack.com is decent for this. Amazon has well over a hundred services, but an awful lot of them will never apply to what you're working on. You're right-- any print book is out of date by the time it hits stores.

btian 8y ago

AWS and GCP have certifications too. GCP - https://cloud.google.com/certification/ https://cloud.google.com/certification/ AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/certification/ https://aws.amazon.com/certification/ Personally I just learn whatever I need for my current task by reading documentation and sample code.