People ask me all the time. What certs should I get? What skills do I need? Where do I even start with Cloud, DevOps, or SRE? It comes from everywhere. Beginners trying to break in, career changers pivoting from other fields, senior engineers looking to fill gaps or pick up something new. For a while I would tell them I’d put together a learning plan for them. And then I wouldn’t. Life gets busy, things slip, and I’d end up feeling guilty about promises I didn’t keep.