What stuck with me from this chat with Nana is that curiosity and hunger for learning & sharing will bring you further than anything else.
In her case, learning Kubernetes and AWS and sharing that knowledge eventually lead to becoming Docker Captain, AWS Hero & CNCF Ambassador.
Those were never goals, but always a result of focussing on efforts.
In doing so she managed to grow a YouTube community of 700k subs.
Enjoy! 🎙
Connect with Nana Janashia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nana-janashia
https://twitter.com/Njuchi_
https://www.techworld-with-nana.com
https://www.youtube.com/c/techworldwithnana
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https://youtu.be/KFZjl1gofXs
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OUTLINE:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:31 - Who does what on the YouTube channel
00:00:59 - How Nana started on YouTube
00:03:15 - Split responsibilities
00:04:34 - How Nana got into DevOps technologies
00:08:19 - Nana's first Kubernetes experience
00:13:47 - Accommodating for requirements
00:14:30 - Trial and error with Kubernetes early on
00:16:10 - How to make it run & how to make it right
00:20:46 - How Nana stays on top of production level knowledge
00:25:56 - Nana's love for teaching and simplifying
00:29:20 - The difference between DevOps and SRE
00:33:07 - SRE and DevOps engineers in teams
00:36:55 - Cloud Engineers in a seperate team
00:38:44 - Different solutions
00:39:31 - the DevOps is dead controversy
00:42:00 - Docker Captain, AWS hero and CNCF ambassador
00:43:21 - Nana's YouTube channel goals
00:44:56 - Focussing on efforts
00:46:03 - Nana's early in career advice
00:48:04 - You take learnings with you
00:51:29 - Curiosity and learning new things
