Work Stuff Tech
So... I went from a Server Sorcerer, Legacy Service Necromancer and Incident Inquisitor to.. Cloud Conjuration Witch.
My mom asked me to try to explain my new role.. and I struggled because explaining anything with public cloud space and Ops/DevOps to someone that does not have the technical background knowledge is basically impossible.
"So you write code?"
"Not that much.. I work with the people who write it to make sure it produces a stable, reliable, scalable and secure service/product."
"So.. you are QA?"
"No... I don't test their code... I cast spells on the internet to conjure up fake servers and networks for their code to live on that in turn only exist on another company's abstracted computing layer atop their physical hardware."
"So you are an internet witch..?"
- Actual conversation with my mom..
re: Work Stuff Tech
This is missing the part were I got frustrated and tried to explain things like containers, cloudformation, terraform, terragrunt and various other template and management/deployment tools and she concluded they were basically "Spells"
Please note.. it is not like my mom is dumb.. she was very much the opposite of that with a Ph.D in nursing and 40 years of experience during emergency medicine, family practice, pulmonology and pediatric oncology
It is just really hard to explain public cloud stuff to a lay person.. it might as well be fucking magic.