Seriously gaming your cloud expertise: from cloud tourist to cloud native
summary
Company builds two web apps — a knowledge map and a gamified achievement app — using AWS Amplify, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB and Aurora Serverless with Azure AD login; players submit achievements, earn badges, and enter competitions (round-of-32 brackets, nine-week “Cloud Olympics”). Result: a spike to >1,000 achievements in a month, 50+ cloud certs in six months, more cloud‑native projects and hires. The system pairs curated learning paths with social incentives and demonstrably increases cloud proficiency across technical and nontechnical roles.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to cloud native journey
- 2:10Why become cloud native
- 9:57Cloud proficiency definition
- 16:44Motivation framework for learning
- 21:17Cloud proficiency app demo
- 26:39Cloud game motivation demo
- 33:48Program results and impact
- 38:25Q&A session
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