Transformed! A Musical DevOps Journey with Forrest Brazeal

It's 5:41pm—do you know where your DevOps transformation is? We know where it started, don't we? It starts with high hopes. It starts with big dreams. It starts... with a vision...

by Forrest Brazeal, Developer Communities, Google

Forrest Brazeal is a cloud educator, author, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter who is currently Google Cloud's Head of Developer Media. Forrest was previously an AWS Serverless Hero and is the creator of the Cloud Resume Challenge initiative, which has helped thousands of career-changers and upskillers take their first steps into the cloud.

Performed at DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2022.

[forrest_brazeal]

This was so much fun! Thanks for having me, IT Revolution.

[pipesanma]

Love the song for your baby. Could help me with the Lyrics?

You won't always feel like a rock star
sometimes you'll struggle just to carry the tune.
In the mirror, you'll see an impostor
and you'll wonder if the whole world's smarter than you
and stronger and faster and you're a disaster.
But baby you're wrong

because you belong,
even when you don't believe it, you belong.
I've got help when you need it, just hold on.
The other road ahead looks steep so take my hand we'll leap together.
Oh you belong.

Sometimes you'll feel kind of burned out.
You'll work with folks who seem to fuse and unfair.
You'll have a dream and it turns out
then no one else around you seems to care
and when you see what you're up against
it's fine to fight to feel and sense or just to move on

because you belong.
In a place where you're supported, you belong
where you're challenged and rewarded just hold on.
As you feel your power growing.
You can choose the way you're going and it's.... where you belong.

And one of these days you're gonna reach the mountains up.
it's not if but when.
And when you do I hope you'll take a beat to stop and celebrate how far you've come
remember where you've been and then reach back to those behind you,
shine a light so they can find you, and help the ones you can. Then sing to them again, tell them

You belong,
when you're new and nervous,
then you still belong.
I know the road ahead is steep, so take my hand. We'll leap together

Ty in advance