Learning about other cloud vendors - OCI
Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊
Subject matter: 💡 Learning and Development 💡
💠 I am an AWS Community Builder, which to me means many things, but overall it drives me to build and be curious about computing. This means adventuring into technology, pressing buttons, getting stuck in, and also a lot of the time, getting… stuck.
Over the last 15 years, in my day job, I have authored hundreds of technical process and knowledge base articles. However, some of my more recent and shorter cloud troubleshooting articles are here: 🚧Here🚧
During the last 18 months, I have come to know AWS products and services quite well. I’m no expert, granted. But I can build things and I really enjoy designing architecture diagrams. If you’d like to see more of those, check out my projects page 💠Here💠
But what about everything else in the ☁ cloud? ☁
In 2020, I dipped my toe into the cloud market and did some GCP learning, however just as I was about to prepare for the exam in March 2020, the world went into lockdown and it all went on the back burner.
That was, of course until January 2023 when I attached a rocket booster to my back, and launch control boosted me into the AWS realm.
However, I stumbled upon something recently that I realised I knew very little about:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI.
I decided to follow my builder nose and did a short course in OCI to find out a little more about it all.
You may ask, “why, Barny, you do AWS?” ❔
I say, “why not?” 🤷♂️
In my day job, I spend time looking at Microsoft, VMware and NetApp products.
⚜ Plus I got a badge and everyone like a course completion badge. 😎
I like working with AWS, am familiar with the core service offerings, and have fun building projects. Nothing has changed there. However, it is always good to have knowledge of other providers and what they can do.
It might not be that far into the future when we need to mesh cross-vendor services together to offer a solution to a business problem.
So here we are, I know a little more now about OCI than I did last month and can find my way around their offerings.
I think I found understanding OCI’s core services easier due to my existing knowledge of how AWS products and services work too.
🛠 Now let’s get back to the AWS Management Console for some building! 🛠
