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Solving for Technology: How to quickly learn valuable new skills in a madly changing technology world

David Clinton

No matter how good you are at what you do today, tomorrow will likely demand a whole new set of skills. How do you plan to learn them?

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Remember Fortran, 32-bit microprocessors, and mainframes? One day, perhaps sooner than we think, JavaScript and Docker might feel just as obscure. How are you going to keep up?

  • Well the first step is just that: plan. Start with questions:
  • Which new technologies will impact your career?
  • Which make the most sense to learn?
  • What tools exist to help you with your learning?
  • What's the best way to go about it?

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Computers and ProgrammingCloud ComputingAmazon Web Services

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David Clinton

David Clinton is a Linux Server Professional with years' experience teaching technical subjects. He is the author of two books on AWS administration from Wiley/Sybex, Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches and Linux in Action (both from Manning) and 20 Pluralsight courses covering Linux administration, Amazon Web Services, and Docker.

David has worked on real-world deployments within both traditional data centers and the AWS cloud.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Managing change

  1. Why your career needs future proofing
  2. What you should be learning

Thinking it through

  1. Identifying the problem that needs solving
  2. Squeezing the most out of your learning
  3. Staying inspired
  4. Maintaining a balanced, healthy lifestyle
  5. Case study

Work habits (of the rich and famous)

  1. Discipline
  2. Experiment…and fail
  3. Take notes
  4. ````
  5. Case study

First steps

  1. The big picture
  2. Software installation
  3. Environment orientation
  4. The “Hello World” test run
  5. Case study

Creating a virtual workspace

  1. Getting started with VirtualBox
  2. Working with LXC
  3. Writing code on a remote server
  4. Case study

Leveraging learning resources

  1. Books
  2. Curated courses
  3. Non-curated courses
  4. Higher education institutions
  5. The open internet
  6. Free stuff
  7. Case study

Appendix 1: networking basics

  1. Understanding TCP/IP addressing
  2. Understanding the Domain Name System (DNS)

Appendix 2: basic Linux administration

  1. Linux distributions
  2. Working with root authority
  3. Package managers
  4. SSH: secure remote connectivity
  5. The Linux file system

Appendix 3: Amazon Web Services

  1. Migrating workloads
  2. Refactoring and optimizing cloud workloads
  3. Serverless workloads

Wrapping it all up

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