What a DevOps Interview Taught Me About Continuous Learning.

A while ago, I got a DevOps interview challenge that pushed me to level up — even though I didn’t land the job, the learning was worth it.

The task?1️⃣ Build and deploy a Dockerized Laravel app through a Jenkins pipeline (image, tests, release).2️⃣ Design a scalable AWS stack using RDS, EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, SNS & SQS.3️⃣ (Optional) Scale workloads on DigitalOcean droplets with monitoring and backups.

Instead of stopping there, I decided to build the full project myself and document everything here 👉 parcelpro-starter.

It became a great learning curve — proof that every interview, even the ones you don’t pass, can be a springboard for growth. 💪

In DevOps, upskilling never ends. Every tool, every lab, every project builds your confidence for the next opportunity. 🚀

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