Episode Followup – How To Learn Like A Rockstar!

Amanda Ruzza is a DevOps Engineer, world famous Jass Bassist, and a Services Architect at Datadog! in this episode she shares how she ‘migrated’ traditional music studying techniques into learning Cloud and all things tech related!

“Study is fun and it’s all about falling in love with the journey 📚🎶🎼 “

  • 00:00 – Intro
  • 19:03 – Study Techniques for Busy Humans
  • 20:21 – Figure out your WHY
  • 24:30 – Define your non-negotiables
  • 25:15 – Assess your Learning Style
  • 28:01 – Your schedule
  • 30:25 – Create a plan
  • 31:43 – Execute the plan
  • 39:27 – Iterate
  • 40:31 – Make it fun!

How to find Amanda:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaruzza/

Link to her deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bt3_Bk7y7xAZinARANhP1Fl8AEb7NA46LFMRYZQF-6c/edit

Amanda’s favorite resources:

AWS Power Hour on Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/aws

AWS Workshops – https://workshops.aws/

AWS – FAQ’s and Official AWS Blogs – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/

DevOps –

Anton Putra’s YouTube Channel – all things Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS

https://www.youtube.com/antonputra

DevOps toolkit – all things Kubernetes, Open Source tools and Linux

https://www.youtube.com/c/DevOpsToolkit

Terraform/Vault – Hashicorp Tutorials

https://developer.hashicorp.com/tutorials

Terraform – Ned in the Cloud’s YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/NedintheCloud

Nana’s YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@TechWorldwithNana

Ansible and Linux – Learn Linux TV Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@LearnLinuxTV

On-Prem and Networking – Network Chuck YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@NetworkChuck

Python – Cory Schafer’s YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@coreyms

DevOps – Spacelift Blog – all things Terraform and Kubernetes

https://spacelift.io/blog

Terraform – Mattias Fjellstrom’s Blog

https://mattias.engineer/