Year One: Transitioning From Application Engineer to Infrasec Engineer
Misty Hall, TrussWorks
No one emerges from the womb an Infrastructure Engineer (except maybe John AllSpaw), and the idea of which skills gaps constitute acceptable hiring risk are highly contested. After a year of struggles, triumphs, and self-reflection, I humbly present my context as a case study in the Sisyphean task of remedying skills gaps in a field where lifelong-learning is a given.
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