Building Blocks of IT: From Problems to Solutions pt. 1

Episode 18   Published September 2, 2025 29 minute watch

Summary

Landon Miles and Jeremy Maldonado say you start automating by writing each problem as a single sentence and breaking it into the smallest discrete steps. Solve the biggest pain first instead of trying to fix the whole workflow at once. They recommend Linux as the next move after problem definition, since it's free, runs on almost anything, and underpins the Docker, Kubernetes, and Bash-based GitHub workflows you reach for later. Learn by experiment in a home lab: spin servers up with Proxmox or Docker, break them, and rebuild from an ISO in minutes when something fails.