A Software Engineer’s YouTube journey
As a kid, I always loved playing with computers. My mom taught me how to use MS DOS on a 386 when I was about 6 years old and I used to play Prince of Persia, Commander Keen and many other games
Throughout my school life, my friends and I used to meet up at each others houses and have LAN parties where we just play games all weekend on a local area network. From then on, I ended up studying Computer Science. I did not know anything about the industry of programming. I just knew I loved computers and coding seemed to be where the skill shortages were, so I followed that path.
As the years past, I wanted to build something, but I had no clue what it was. On a side note, I used to love making short videos of myself and friends surfing, as kids. Therefore, I realized I had a passion for video editing. Being a gamer myself, I followed many professional gamer’s who make content on YouTube.
My passion was right under my nose all along. I decided to fulfill my video editing passion by making YouTube content and I could build things and showcase technologies for folks along the way. This would help me learn and explore different technologies and also share my experiences with the community.
I started with this little trailer to give folks an idea of my channel
It’s been just over a month and I am so excited to push this journey further.
I have several ideas of things I want to build. Currently I am automating the process of finding music for my YouTube channel, which is quite an exciting project. In that one I use message queues, Golang a binary data store and few other awesome things!
So far I’ve covered:
- Docker for beginners
- Kubernetes
- Traefik Loadbalancer
- Let’s Encrypt SSL
- Prometheus Monitoring + Grafana
- Micro User-Interface architecture
I am planning to cover all the above topics in more depth in the future
I did a small project building out my personal website and I vlog’ed the entire journey :) Head over to my YouTube channel and let me know what you think.
Peace!
Marcel
