Cloud Architect career cloud engineering career to fantastic careers.
But guess what you have to choose?
Watch this video to find out why.
Hi, my name is Michael Gibbs, and I'm the founder and CEO of go cloud architects and
go code careers.
And we're an organization dedicated towards building the best cloud computing and networking
careers.
Personally, I've been working in technology for over 25 years, and I've been helping others
get their first tech job or get promoted in tech for over two decades.
My absolute favorite thing in the world is one of my students calls and says, Guess what,
Mike, I just got caught hired.
Today we're going to talk about cloud architects and cloud engineers.
And realistically speaking, these are really great careers.
But where people are, is they try to be a cloud architect and cloud engineer at the
same time, and it has to be an either or, and will tell you what Cloud architects and
cloud engineers have incredibly different jobs.
And the challenge is you can't do two things that are so different from each other at the
same time, and if you do, you'll fail at both.
So let's talk about what architects do.
architects do system design, lots of presentation, lots of communication, lots of sales, all
big picture work, we have to look at the end to end solution.
And we're trying to solve customer problems by analyzing the business, the business systems,
the people, the process, the technology, the workflows.
So as architects, we need to be these big picture people.
Now, cloud engineers are like the construction crew that builds the design that we caught,
architects have deeply technical.
And when I say deeply technical, we're talking coding, configuring automation, deeply technical
jobs.
And the point is to be a cloud engineer, you need to be able to focus on the details, where
to be a cloud architect, you've got to focus on the big picture.
So let's describe the problem in a few ways.
Let's assume you had a giant 747 A huge airplane and it didn't have an autopilot.
You've got a pilot and the copilot flying the plane the pilots there to make sure the
flying plays are perfectly and the copilot is there to make sure if anything happens
to the pilot or the pilot need help needs help.
There's a second person there's this is a critical role.
And if those pilots aren't in the cockpit, the plane goes down.
So we need our pilots in the cockpit focused on flying the plane the same time in a Boeing
777.
You've got hundreds of people in the back.
And if nobody keeps the people in their seats, when there's turbulence for example, if no
one were to hand out oxygen should an emergency occur, people could die.
So we have the pilots flying the plane and the flight attendants in the back for safety
for good reason.
See, we can't have that pilot give up his or her post to go out and keep people in their
seats and make sure they're safe.
He just can't do two things at the same time.
Let's look at an Olympic gymnast.
Someone like Simone Biles, you know, when you look at Simone Biles, you can you watch
her compete, you can see all the power, the speed, the agility, the athleticism, all skills
from the Olympic gymnast.
The Olympic gymnasts are muscular because they have to have a high strength to weight
ratio.
They're powerful, they're hostile.
Now compare that to a marathon runner, a marathon runners concerned with going long, long, long
distances or relatively slow speed.
So a marathon runner won't have a lot of extra muscle on them because it's going to slow
them down as they're trying to running.
So they train differently than the Olympic gymnast.
And if a marathon runner did Olympic gymnast work, they gain weight, which would make them
bad runners, and a Samoan bylaws or an Olympic gymnast started running, they lose their strength
or speed, their agility because it's a different career.
So let's go back to our careers, I just wanted to show you how you can't be good at both
at the same time.
For some reason, people in tech think we can do multiple things, but we can't.
We're no different than the airplane pilot.
We're no different than the doctor that's practicing medicine, not law.
Well, at the same time, we're no different than that Olympian, we have to be great at
we do.
So now let's think about it.
Let's think about someone that's analyzing 50,000 lines of code.
They are zoomed in, they have to be deeply technical person.
But if you're zoomed into those lines of code, you can't see the big picture of what's going
on.
So I'm going to prove this to you by giving you an example.
In this video, we have a picture of my beautiful cat Cindy.
She's a cat that I rescued or she rescued me.
I don't really know.
But I rescued her about a year ago from the cat rescue.
Now right now you can see my big beautiful cat.
Now what you can see we're going to do next is we're going to zoom in on the cat's eye.
Now what do you see?
You see the cat's eye?
What don't you see?
The cats tell the cats pointy ears.
The cat's whiskers all you can see is the cat's eye.
So that's the thing when you're engineer doing engineering work, you must be zoomed in, because
we need that level of detail.
But when you're zoomed in, you can See the big picture.
And as architects, we focus on the big picture, we can't afford to zoom in on the cat's eye.
Because once we do when we're focused on that cat's eye, no matter how much fun it is to
look at it, no matter how much we want to work on the depth, we can't see the big picture.
So that's why cloud architects versus cloud engineers are very different.
That's why you have to pick one.
And they're very different skill sets anyway, versus the architect versus the engineers,
so master your career.
And you'll have the best cloud computing career ever.
Whether it's a cloud architect, cloud engineer, a DevOps engineer, a sis ops engineer, doesn't
matter, Train for your career, and you will have an elite technology career.
So go out there and get yourself cloud hard.
This is Michael Gibbs.
I'm the founder and CEO of go cloud architects and go cloud careers, helping you build the
best technology career.
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