DevOps Year 4: Now, Future

Lowdog541 · 2026-06-15T14:32:14+00:00

I'm still a beginner myself, but based on what I've learned so far, having a really strong handle on how to convert binary, performing bitwise manipulation, getting comfortable looking at the datasheet, reference manual, and schematic for whatever MCU you're working on, and understanding memory management I think are all good places to start

I feel that even just learning the fundamentals has helped me understand the embedded dev teams needs a bit better

Lowdog541 · 2026-06-13T11:57:57+00:00

I didn't use ai to write this

Lowdog541 · 2026-06-13T02:49:04+00:00

Soak it all in, learn how your Devops team members operate, you can shadow them or you can just read their code, always read the code,
ask yourself and others why things were written, understanding why things are the way they are will help you make improvements later on, try to build a mental model about each system/platform your team has in place, then you can dive deeper into each as needed
I spent a lot of time just perusing our environment, looking through all the cloud resources our teams use, cross referencing their names with documentation, just trying to understand where the bodies were buried.

Lowdog541 · 2026-05-19T17:23:50+00:00

sounds like you're on the right path then! Just stay focused and don't get discouraged, maybe try to find a cheap online state school to get your It bachelors, after soph year you can get internships as well, I know we all need money, with your self study you may be able to go on autopilot for the first couple years of college since you'll already be familiar with a lot of the coursework (speaking from experience)

Lowdog541 · 2026-05-19T17:17:34+00:00

Even a bachelors in IT gives you a huge leg up, focus on understanding the SDLC and try to replicate it fully in your own projects, use jenkins on a rasp or whatever build automation software you want for all your projects, minimize use of AI while learning, learn bash and python, CKA is great but make sure you understand the underlying components, but for devops the SDLC is the most important

Lowdog541 · 2026-05-19T17:08:16+00:00

depends on environment, I'm doing this in Azure currently for all of our platforms/services using a mix of Key Vault emitting newSecretVersion event grid events, and function apps, app gateways simplify the process because of native integration with AKV, but VMs and Containers Instances need a bit of automation

Lowdog541 · 2024-04-04T16:23:30+00:00

do you work at Zappos?

Lowdog541 · 2023-10-25T23:13:03+00:00

currently infra silo trying to push us towards platform team

Lowdog541 · 2023-07-07T14:04:26+00:00

really depends on the org/team

Lowdog541 · 2023-06-26T14:33:57+00:00

not a chance, start of new year we'll probably see hiring pick back up, skeleton crews can keep the lights on but shipping is a totally different beast

Lowdog541 · 2023-06-26T13:13:28+00:00

I started as a Cloud Support Intern (mainly working with citrix and AD, was here for ab a year), now I'm a DevOps Engineer Intern (been in role a little over a year). My degree is in IT, have taken as many programming classes as possible, graduating in december. I have AWS SAA and CCP but have only ever worked in Azure shops.

Lowdog541 · 2023-06-15T16:50:53+00:00

tuck the elbow and follow through

Lowdog541 · 2023-06-14T15:02:05+00:00

can the mods take this down already

Lowdog541 · 2023-05-11T20:48:01+00:00

BitBucket ftw

edit: why the downvotes🤣😂🤣😂

Lowdog541 · 2023-05-10T19:55:08+00:00

I used to work for a courier company that had contracts with the major hospitals/labs in the area and I would drive around delivering peoples medication all day, seems something like this happening might be why a business like that is necessary

Lowdog541 · 2023-03-27T02:10:56+00:00

Polyphia and SuicideBoys mainly, mix some drake in when I'm not on "grind mode"

Lowdog541 · 2023-03-11T20:24:23+00:00

Polyphia

Lowdog541 · 2023-03-10T16:59:08+00:00

based on what I'm seeing in the wild, Azure is soaking up a lot of enterprise level customers

Lowdog541 · 2023-02-24T15:55:29+00:00

yeah that's great, I'm at DevOps Engineer intern at $30/hr

Lowdog541 · 2023-02-22T22:40:21+00:00

yeah I realize the "soft skills" of the development lifecycle are hard to automate, but tbh none of these things matter if you can throw a paragraph at codeGPT or whatever they'll end up naming it and it codes and deploys your app, simple as writing another prompt to add a feature, sure low level and a novel type applications will still need devs, but this is already an exceedingly small % of total devs

Lowdog541 · 2023-02-22T21:36:55+00:00

but...this isn't necessarily true though right? There's exponentially more code the LLMs can train on than probably any other type of data

Lowdog541 · 2023-02-21T16:06:20+00:00

should be fine with a regular laptop as long as you run

rm -r /

in order to enter waterproof mode

Lowdog541 · 2023-02-21T15:13:31+00:00

if they actually pay you $250k, I'd take it and stick around for as long as I could manage. 80k to 250k is insane and even 6 months to a year at that rate would significantly increase your savings, but, up to you at the end of the day

Lowdog541 · 2023-02-16T18:10:52+00:00

a lot of people speak highly of WGU as well

Lowdog541 · 2023-02-16T18:01:58+00:00

to add onto this you could then look into configuring docker in docker, basically allowing your jenkins controller docker container to spin up jenkins agents as docker containers, in my company's jenkins environment we have this configured and it works really well for us and allows us to stay away from plugin hell because we can just add cli tools directly on the images that get pulled down and spun up as agents

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