About me and why I am writing this blog
Hi, my long-form name is Guinevere, but you can also call me Guin if you like. Welcome and pleased to meet you.
So... last summer I got a new job.
Not only was it a new job - it was a new kind of job. After years of being a musician for my main source of income, I dropped everything (except some gigs that were worth it for the fun!), attended Ada Developers Academy for a year, and learned how to code. I may in the future write more about the details of how or why I chose to do this, but I am terrible at keeping these kinds of promises, so, not promising anything. In fact, I am generally kind of terrible at blogging and keeping up with posts, so I hope that won't happen.
So last summer, I got hired as a software engineer. I am learning that this means a lot of things. I am in a place where I work with a fairly new open source technology called Kubernetes. I have developer friends who have been in the industry for ten years whom I've taught about what Kubernetes is, to give you an idea.
The beautiful part about being new to programming and also working in Kubernetes is that almost everyone else is also new to Kubernetes. I have repeatedly been in a position to explain things to more recent hires at my company, people who have been software engineers for years.
So that is exciting.
In this blog, I plan to post technical and professional things I learned. I am obviously still learning. I hope to post little technical TIL's and, time permitting, work my way up to full-blown tutorials. I also expect to be wrong sometimes, and I expect any readers of this blog to tell me so. POLITELY. Please share your knowledge, and you may help not just me, but others as well.
So... last summer I got a new job.
Not only was it a new job - it was a new kind of job. After years of being a musician for my main source of income, I dropped everything (except some gigs that were worth it for the fun!), attended Ada Developers Academy for a year, and learned how to code. I may in the future write more about the details of how or why I chose to do this, but I am terrible at keeping these kinds of promises, so, not promising anything. In fact, I am generally kind of terrible at blogging and keeping up with posts, so I hope that won't happen.
So last summer, I got hired as a software engineer. I am learning that this means a lot of things. I am in a place where I work with a fairly new open source technology called Kubernetes. I have developer friends who have been in the industry for ten years whom I've taught about what Kubernetes is, to give you an idea.
The beautiful part about being new to programming and also working in Kubernetes is that almost everyone else is also new to Kubernetes. I have repeatedly been in a position to explain things to more recent hires at my company, people who have been software engineers for years.
So that is exciting.
In this blog, I plan to post technical and professional things I learned. I am obviously still learning. I hope to post little technical TIL's and, time permitting, work my way up to full-blown tutorials. I also expect to be wrong sometimes, and I expect any readers of this blog to tell me so. POLITELY. Please share your knowledge, and you may help not just me, but others as well.
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