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Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers

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Oct 16, 2026

1:49
As a DevOps guy, what is your advice for people who don't even know what DevOps is or want to jump into DevOps and they're just like a network admin or they're a system admin? What would be like your two-liner approach to explaining what is DevOps?
2:03
Sure.
2:05
I think it really depends on what your background is.
2:07
So if you're coming from, like my background is system administration.
2:10
I was a sysadmin for like 20 years, which makes me old.
2:13
I'm old.
2:14
But I was coming into DevOps and I had that history.

8 MINS LATER

9:59
So after we've got Linux, Where do we go from there? After Linux?
1:42
What happened to
1:43
you? I'll actually start right from the beginning.
1:46
Alright, so I went to high school like all people do.
1:49
Most people do.
1:50
Out of high school I went to Michigan Tech and I was going to be an electrical engineer for the sole reason that they made a lot of money and that's what I wanted to do.
1:57
I was a pretty smart guy.
1:58
I went to Michigan Tech during the third semester.

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7:16
So, I mean, it

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