# Dreams Are Messages From the Deep

Imagine waking up one day after dreaming that you’ve architected, deployed, and streamlined the infrastructure that your platform uses. Thus, I set out to learn:

* Networking
    
* Virtualisation
    
* Operating Systems
    
* Databases
    

This will allow me to establish the foundations for my projects and test some of my solutions. Once I have experience with their products, I will also consider AWS and GCP certification. Since AWS is very inexpensive at low volumes and seems to be the most flexible, it’s likely to be the first.

I aim to become a certified cloud practitioner with either AWS or GCP by the end of June 2025. I will also collaborate on at least one open-source project and be considered for a junior cloud engineer role, where I can further expand my skills.

The final goal is to deploy and manage a small cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible by the end of March 2026.

Let’s see how well I can adhere to those timelines and accomplish my goals. This is where it gets fun!