I'm an Eng Manager and half of my learning time in 2020 will be focused on developing better management/leadership skills. It's something I've found comes with little mentorship opportunities in tech and is also hard to find others to reach out to / network with for mentorship opportunities.
The other half / pure tech - taking on some of the stack that has largely been abstracted by other teams as I've worked, namely CI/CD/Ops/Monitoring for distributed, containerized systems.
I'll probably build something with:
- Go on the backend
- Typescript + React (maybe Vue) on the front-end
- Postgres (really want to master this)
- Redis for caching
and get it built and running on AWS with Kubernetes. Don't know what I want to do for logs/monitoring/dashboards etc. as I've experience with ELK (don't enjoy it), Splunk, Sumo and others but it's not as important a choice to make right now.
Depending on how well that's going I may write a mobile app with Flutter or React Native for whatever is built to round it out.
I have to say though, and I don't know how many others here feel the same, I am getting some sense of anxiety over having no knowledge of or practical experience in ML/DL. Is that justified? Part of me is tempted to invest the entire other half of my learning time into ML/DL for at least the first 6 months and I'm still talking myself down on it.
>I'm an Eng Manager and half of my learning time in 2020 will be focused on developing better management/leadership skills. It's something I've found comes with little mentorship opportunities in tech and is also hard to find others to reach out to / network with for mentorship opportunities.
There's a lot of books on leadership and team building that I'm eager to read - Difficult Conversations, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Good to Great, Simon Sinek's books, etc. I'm planning on digesting some of those and trying to utilize what I find applicable, iterate as I learn from it.
Communications is another area I'm planning on focusing on. I've very solid written communication skills, so I plan to mainly focus on verbal skills. I've one or two in-person workshops/courses I'm considering for this, as well as potentially joining toastmasters due to their great reputation.
Putting focus on the above areas plus seeking targeted feedback more rigorously should, I believe, help me grow considerably.
Networking is difficult, I have to admit. Not because I'm unapproachable or fear approaching others, but I've found a lot of tech meetups are either very technology specific, or where they're not they're jammed with recruiters, people looking for jobs or people looking to simply sell you something.
Apologies for the delayed reply. What are your thoughts, since you ask?
The other half / pure tech - taking on some of the stack that has largely been abstracted by other teams as I've worked, namely CI/CD/Ops/Monitoring for distributed, containerized systems.
I'll probably build something with:
- Go on the backend
- Typescript + React (maybe Vue) on the front-end
- Postgres (really want to master this)
- Redis for caching
and get it built and running on AWS with Kubernetes. Don't know what I want to do for logs/monitoring/dashboards etc. as I've experience with ELK (don't enjoy it), Splunk, Sumo and others but it's not as important a choice to make right now.
Depending on how well that's going I may write a mobile app with Flutter or React Native for whatever is built to round it out.
I have to say though, and I don't know how many others here feel the same, I am getting some sense of anxiety over having no knowledge of or practical experience in ML/DL. Is that justified? Part of me is tempted to invest the entire other half of my learning time into ML/DL for at least the first 6 months and I'm still talking myself down on it.