Community for New Developers

This was a talk I gave at the graduation ceremony for DevPoint Labs, a local bootcamp.

Transcript

1. IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! Take This. JAMISON DANCE @jergason
2. IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! Take This. JAMISON DANCE (Community) @jergason
3. > ABOUT.EXE
4. > ABOUT.EXE reactrally.com
5. > ABOUT.EXE reactrally.com fivestack.computer
6. > ABOUT.EXE reactrally.com fivestack.computer softskills.audio
7. > ABOUT.EXE reactrally.com fivestack.computer softskills.audio jsjabber.com
8. > ABOUT.EXE @jergason reactrally.com fivestack.computer softskills.audio jsjabber.com
9. > ABOUT_U.exe |
10. > ABOUT_U.exe |
14. > SPOOKY.EXE
15. WHAT SCARES NEW DEVS
16. "How do I find a job?" - A Bootcamp Grad
17. Community
18. Community !== SCHMOOZING
19. "WHAT If I Break Something?" - A Junior Dev
20. https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ [A developer] executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process.
21. https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ [O]ne of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended.
22. https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ This broke the index subsystem. This subsystem is necessary to serve all GET, LIST, PUT, and DELETE requests
23. https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ While S3 was down, the S3 console, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) new instance launches, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes (when data was needed from a S3 snapshot), and AWS Lambda were unavailable.
24. > DEVOPS.EXE
25. > DEVOPS.EXE
26. Community
27. "How do I keep up?" - EVERYONE
28. Community
29. Tech You can't separate the And the PEOPLE
30. Tech PICK BASED ON COMMUNITY
31. Community? HOW DO I
32. HELP OUT
33. > HELP.EXE
34. > HELP.EXE meetups
35. > HELP.EXE meetups volunteer
36. > HELP.EXE meetups volunteer conferences
37. introvert What if I'm an
38. introvert What if I'm an
39. > HELP.EXE
40. > HELP.EXE open source
41. > HELP.EXE open source documentation
42. > HELP.EXE open source documentation twitter
43. > HELP.EXE open source documentation twitter slack.utahjs.com
44. BEING A SCARY NEW DEV IS
45. Community LEAN ON
46. > QUESTIONS.exe