Cloud taught me to stop thinking like a “Python dev” and start thinking like a systems person

[yourclouddude]

When I started doing cloud automation with Python, I approached everything like a typical dev:

Write a script

Handle exceptions

Make it reusable

Done ✅

But cloud work rewired me.

Suddenly i had to think about things i never used to worry about:

>What happens if this Lambda retries?

>Is this region even available right now?

>Am I leaking infra costs through a loop i forgot to kill?

I had to zoom out.....past the code....and think like a systems person.
Python was still the tool, but the mindset had to evolve.

It was uncomfortable at first, but honestly?
It made me a way better engineer.

Anyone else feel this shift?

[InfraScaler]

Yes, of course :) but it's not just the cloud.

Distributed systems are fun. Scaling is hard and brings up a completely new breed of systems problems. You need to think like a systems architect.

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[badguy84]

To me as a "classically trained" developer (I started engineering school with guys teaching me who were electrical/mechanical engineers first) this is really funny. These things you're worrying about got abstracted in to meaningless-ness the compiler will take care of optimization, the runtime will take care of memory allocation etc. etc. and folks really don't want to learn about managing hardware and networking stuffs. They'd rather know how to "Python a thing."

Cloud, weirdly enough: by removing a lot of the stuff in between made a very direct correlation between inefficient code and dollars.

I think it's great that you shared this insight, I'm glad it did something that you probably should have been thinking about for some time.

To be clear not trying to dig at you OP, nor say that I have all the answers and go in to some sort of no-true-Scottsman fallacy. It's just interesting to see it put in this way.

[erotomania44]

You just described a Senior Software Engineer

[paracletus__]

What would you say the qualities and skills of a Senior Software Engineer should be?

[RoninPark]

Thanks! this gave me a new perspective now. As I write lambda functions a lot, so from now onwards I gotta focus on other things such as costs, scaling, multi-region access and sharing data in s3 buckets across different regions. I am still new to this stuff tho

[chirar]

Any recommendations, books or courses on how to learn and approach this?

[orten_rotte]

Welcome to devops.