David Cohen

tutorialinux

Technology EN ↓ 8 episodes

Finally, an honest glimpse at the realities of the tech industry. Dave (tutorialinux on YouTube) covers what's interesting in tech and picks his friends' brains about their careers, skills, and advice/ideas they've found useful. You'll hear from people who are deeply involved in the worlds of Software Development, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and the human/management/entrepreneurship side of the tech industry. Warning: may contain sudden philosophizing, occasional doses of salt, and frequent marveling at brilliant technology and computer science from years past.

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David Cohen

Episodes

Dave and Matthew Rant About Tech 01.06.2025 1:16:20

This is what it sounds like when Matthew and I have a few beers and start talking about the tech industry. I humbly apologize to all tech people who are offended by this and all who celebrate.

From Linguistics to Devops: Scarlett Interview 15.05.2025 1:06:42

I sit down with my friend Scarlett to learn about her journey from linguistics to DevOps, job searching in 2025, things she wishes she'd learned earlier, and a whole lot of valuable advice from her experience in the tech industry.

Staff Engineer Promo, Observability, and Cloud Rants 27.07.2024 1:02:39

00:00 Intros 02:45 Dave's book, Linux for Software Engineers 03:00 Why we wrote the book 06:10 Office Space Movie 09:00 Apple and the AI movement 12:00 How Companies change 14:14 Slow down to speed up 16:00 Slowing down - testing a hobby project 18:20 Promo from Staff Engineer to Staff Engineer 21:05 Day to day as a staff engineer 22:30 Resources for learning to be a staff engineer 23:50 Jr vs...

Getting a Tech Job in 2024, Using ChatGPT, Learning Elixir 03.01.2024 1:05:16

A conversation with fellow Dev/DevOps/SRE/tech person Matthew Sanabria, where we discuss the process of getting a software development job in the 2023-2024 job market. We also discuss using chat GPT and other LLMs as a software developer, and what it's like to start learning Elixir. Check out my upcoming book on the Linux Command line for developers: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Developers-...

The Evolution of Tech Infrastructure 27.08.2023 30:58

A quick solo episode where I cover the changes to infrastructure and architecture I've seen while working in the tech industry. I specifically focus on what my day-to-day work looked like at each phase, and which problems we faced that led to the next evolutionary step.

Q&A: What Senior Engineers Want (from Juniors) 22.08.2023 1:06:33

In this episode, I talk with Matthew and Justin about tech salaries and what makes great engineers (including more Junior people). 0:00 Intro 1:15 Tech Salaries 2:30 Information Asymmetry 4:05 Dave's Salaries 11:40 Matthew's Salaries 16:00 Job-hopping and salary bumps 17:45 Negotiation Tips 24:00 Dave's worst mistake 27:45 Is job-hopping bad? 30:00 How much should you make? 32:25 Intan...

Switching to Neovim, Programming in Elixir 07.08.2023 35:27

Switching from VSCode to neovim: how it's going. Also, I'm learning Elixir, and I'll tell you why. 0:00 Introduction 2:00 Editor Wars 5:35 Kickstart.nvim and my nvim setup 10:40 Should you learn vim? 13:30 Elixir: What makes a language good? 17:15 My impression of Elixir (so far) 19:00 Erlang is cool 26:41 How I learn a new programming language 30:30 Learning Projects

Realities of the Tech Industry: an interview (now with 20% more spice) 24.06.2023 54:55

An interview with Matthew Sanabria about his path through (and continued life in) the tech industry. Matthew and I met working at Hashicorp when it was a much smaller company than it is today. In this episode, we spend a lot of time discussing things we've learned and things we wish someone had told us when we got started in System Administration and Software Development. Timestamps: 0:00 Intr...