Educating the Next Gen of Cloud Engineers
summary
Argues that industry needs 40 million new Cloud builders by 2030 and shows concrete fixes: a 16‑step Cloud Resume Challenge that forces end‑to‑end skills (IaC, CI/CD, serverless API, storage buckets), Google’s additions like software delivery shield and assured OSS/SLSA levels for supply‑chain provenance, and an apprenticeship playbook: reserve headcount, daily pair‑programming with senior engineers, clear promotion incentives. Shares a plumber→DevOps case and claims these steps turn motivated career‑changers into reliable cloud operators.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:33Forrest's "Cloud Bard" title
- 4:16Google Cloud's future
- 12:50Building the next generation of cloud engineers
- 18:55The real reason companies can't find engineers
- 24:22Steps to "grow" engineers at your org
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