HACKER Q&A
📣 aliasxneo

Tutoring for SRE/DevOps?


I'm a self-taught learner who has been studying software engineering and systems administration for a few years now. I'd love to grow deeper in a one-on-one tutoring style, but this seems to be a limited market despite its proven effectiveness.

Does anyone know or have used a service to find tutors in these fields?

  👤 toomuchtodo Accepted Answer ✓
Apply at startups until someone is desperate enough to hire you. Break as little as possible as you learn. Bounce as soon as you’ve reached a point where you’re no longer learning.

There is no better teacher than experience. You can experiment in a homelab extensively, but it’ll never replace experience in a live distributed systems environment.

I cannot stress that tests and peer review are crucial for high availability delivery. Use checklists, ask for feedback, it’s cheaper than outages.

👤 dylanhassinger
kinda hard cuz you need a distributed system to work on

better approach might be to build your own project/mini-startup, then hire a little consulting whenever you hit a pain point