I have had done something similar what Neha suggests here and lately I have been doing a lot of self hosting stuff. I started with buying a Pi 5 and later on added other components and learned more stuff around what is used for what.
I started my career as web and graphic designer and then moved to front-end. 5 years ago, I decided to move out of front-end or basically - upskill and I started Cloud.
I did enrolled in course for cloud and I wasted my money. As someone who was coming from front-end background, it was hard to keep up with the folks in course who are already pro in backend, devops etc.
So, I started doing self learning & it helped me a LOT.
If youโre a beginner and want to get started with cloud platforms, architecture design, or system design, start with small hands-on projects.
I will share 1 project idea for next few days (it would be a note for my my blog too)
PS: I will be using AWS. You can do same in any cloud platform.
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