A Cloud Guru - shoot me
Posted by Relagree@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Please forgive me in advance for the rant.
We have a work subscription to ACG. Some of courses here are fantastic, mainly the old Linux Academy ones. You just get a guy with a terminal that actually knows what they're talking about. The labs actually work.
The "newer" content, such as the videos by Chase Dovey, make me want to stab myself in the eyes with a fork. It's clear he has no clue about the content he is teaching, just reads off the slides. He feels the need to say the words "Cloud gurus" and "I'm your Azure training architect" continously through every video and then quickly endstbefore you get into any real depth. I'm not convinced he has actually used any of these technologies, ever. The associated labs templates often don't work or require troubleshooting (e.g. Trying to launch a VM of a size that Azure Policy is configured to block).
Bring back the Linux Academy content. I'm here to learn in depth technical skills, I don't need the fluff. ACG might think their slides are more "polished" but they're fucking boring.
/rant
ProfessorWorried626@reddit
Sharepoint/Data/Cloud/Secuity/whatever guru. They are all things that start been thrown around when a fad is reaching its equilibrium and people are fighting over of cut of a fixed market share.
nizzyk99@reddit
We had CBT Nuggets for a team of 5, the team seemed to like it, I considered ACG as a trial to see the difference between the two.
Have you tried CBT ?
Droppin_Bombadillos@reddit
Same. After ACG bought them, the enshitification began.
I ended up trying O'Reily Learning and I'm loving it. They have a good mix of books, On-demand courses, and video courses. Also, your subscription includes a decent amount of scheduled live instruction classes.
I'm primarily using it for Linux/Devops stuff, so I can attest to a lot of up-to-
martinsa24@reddit
Some libraries give free access to O'reilly and Udemy.
Eklypze@reddit
I had a free sub to a cloud guru a couple years ago. I bought myself some cantrill.io courses after wasting a couple hours on guru.
viking0x@reddit
My introduction to learning AWS was through the ACG platform. I loved using it and then stopped and went back to it a couple of years later and it felt stale. I even applied to their company as a technical reviewer but I think they didn't want a technical reviewer who knew their stuff.
bjc1960@reddit
I did not renew. I was a LA customers, and LA was based next town over from me.
thortgot@reddit
I find this kind of content of marginal utility at the best of times. Scrubbing through the content for the 5-7 minutes of useful information is a chore and frankly a bad way to learn for me.
I will say making content useful is extremely hard especially trying to target a wide level of skill sets. I find much more targeted training is more effective.
Fluff on content happens because of the imbalance of goals between creators and consumers, creators are generally paid on length. Consumers want the shortest possible.
saucyeggnchee@reddit
I used Linux Academy religiously when I started my current job. As it evolved to Pluralsight, and now A Cloud Guru, it has only gotten progressively worse to the point that is has become my last resort when learning new skills.
Fatel28@reddit
I had the same experience. I used it for my AWS cloud practitioner when it was still Linux Academy and it was fantastic. Fast forward a year later and its ACG, which I used to get my Solutions Architect Associate. It was fine but I felt there was a lot they didn't cover properly.
Fast forward another year and I was studying for my Solutions Architect Professional, and I ended my subscription. The course hadn't been refreshed in 1-2 years, just added some on. So the videos jumped between instructors. I jumped ship to Cloud Academy which was.. not much better in hindsight.