School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads
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#2I'm going to have to check this out. My knowledge concerning some of the topics is relatively ragged, and this could go far in strengthening that base.
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#3Title nitpick but this curriculum is for not just for non traditional hires—
> At Linkedin, we are using this curriculum for onboarding our non-traditional hires and new college grads into the SRE role.
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#4Could you actually get an SRE job if you went through this?
Re: School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads
#5Noticed in the NoSQL section that they still call Cassandra as wide column DB. It’s not true for a long time - CQL requires schema definition, and although it’s possible to emulate old behavior, it’s not wide column anymore - people just copy old things...
Re: School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads
#6Title nitpick but this curriculum is for not just for non traditional hires— > At Linkedin, we are using this curriculum for onboarding our non-traditional hires and new college grads into the SRE role.
Thanks for the comment! I updated the title.
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#7Could you actually get an SRE job if you went through this?
You could probably at least get a phone interview if you did...
Re: School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads
#8Noticed in the NoSQL section that they still call Cassandra as wide column DB. It’s not true for a long time - CQL requires schema definition, and although it’s possible to emulate old behavior, it’s not wide column anymore - people just copy old things...
I'm not 100% sure, but I think LinkedIn still uses it as a wide column store. At least, they've been using it a very long time and certainly used it that way before.
Re: School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads
#9Could you actually get an SRE job if you went through this?
Oddly, the Linked-in SRE interview is more challenging, than this.
Re: School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads
#10Can someone decode the term "non-traditional hire"? I'm sure I knew what this meant at one point but forgot.