These are time-tested practices that have been adopted by Amazon either for its use or for building innovative solutions for their customers. Let’s dive into the key focus areas for each:
- Amazon Builders’ Library
The Amazon Builders’ Library is a collection of articles that explain how Amazon creates, designs, launches, and manages technology. These articles are written by experienced technical leaders and engineers from Amazon. They cover various topics related to architecture, software delivery, and operations. For instance, you can learn about Amazon’s methods for automating software delivery, which allows them to make more than 150 million deployments in a year. You can also explore how Amazon’s engineers use principles such as shuffle sharding to build strong and reliable systems that can handle errors and stay accessible even during failures. The Builders’ Library collection of articles is available at https://aws.amazon.com/ builders-library.
- Solutions Library and its patterns
Today, organizations are looking for trusted solutions and helpful advice to quickly solve their business problems. The AWS Solutions Library provides a variety of solutions created by AWS and its partners. These solutions can be used as they are or customized to meet specific needs. They cover a wide range of industries and technology use cases, giving customers options that fit their requirements. You can access all these patterns at https://aws.amazon.com/ solutions/.
- Workshops on AWS
What better than to try out hands-on tutorials that introduce you to practical skills, concepts, and techniques that allow you to solve business problems? You can make use of the curated content developed by the AWS teams available at https://awsworkshop.io/.
- Local communities and user groups
Another source of great knowledge exchange can be participating in local communities and user groups where people share their experiences with a particular technology stack in AWS to solve a problem. You can search for these communities in portals such as Meetup: https:// www.meetup.com/.
After acquiring all the skills and knowledge, a common problem still faced by many DevOps individual contributors is the ability to drive change within their organization. Let’s discuss some tips to help you succeed.