Frontend To DevOPs: 5 Months In

Table of Contents Introduction Summing Up the Journey Expectations vs. Reality The Tech Stack: What I Had to Learn Surprise! Some Frontend Skills Actually Helped Advice for Frontend Developers Considering the Switch What's Next for Me Introduction Some time ago I decided to switch from Frontend Development to DevOps engineering. I started sharing my experience through a series of blog posts so anyone else on the same journey doesn't feel alone, and anyone thinking about making the same move has the courage to do it. Summing Up the Journey A couple of years ago I was working for a startup. We were a small technical team and I started as a Frontend Developer, that was my main strength. But if you've worked for a startup, you know there's a point where you end up doing whatever it takes to ship fast, so I ended up learning a bit of backend, even Google Analytics (which I hated 😂), and working on the infrastructure with AWS. Luckily, I felt very interested in infrastructure and somehow fe