A learning mindset, starting with COBOL

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

The ability to learn on the job has been a critical skill for David Beale throughout his career. Is the job market not allowing that anymore?

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Featuring:

• David Beale – Website, GitHub, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• LinkedIn post about David learning COBOL

Links of the week

• Underwater datacenters
• Nuclear datacenters

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1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: System Initiative (00:00:52)

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3. The opener (00:04:28)

4. David's early life (00:05:23)

5. Reason for COBOL (00:06:54)

6. Lessons learned (00:07:48)

7. Preparing for a job (00:08:44)

8. 90's internet (00:10:14)

9. Learning networking (00:14:56)

10. Growing through troubles (00:17:14)

11. David's self help journey (00:19:22)

12. Jumping jobs (00:24:25)

13. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:30:40)

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14. Reason to migrate from Heroku (00:33:25)

15. Biggest startup takeaways (00:34:35)

16. Languages are all the same (00:35:29)

17. Patterns in different environments (00:36:43)

18. Early tech interviews (00:41:32)

19. SREs are important (00:47:23)

20. Take-home interviews (00:48:43)

21. David's other projects (00:50:57)

22. The current tech market (00:53:07)

23. Favorite startup job (00:55:33)

24. David's socials (00:56:59)

25. Sponsor: Sentry (00:57:35)

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26. The closer (01:01:01)

27. Outro (01:15:46)