Title: Learning by fire: taking your side project to production with Luc van Donkersgoed
Publication: Ready, Set, Cloud!
Author: Allen Helton
Published: March 01, 2024
URL: https://www.readysetcloud.io/podcast/season-2/3/

Computer science is a field where you fall behind quickly if you aren't constantly learning? What's the best way to learn? Take your side projects to production, of course!


#### Episode Summary

They say the best way to learn is by doing, but is that always true? Does the way people effectively learn change the further they get into their career? Join Luc and Allen as they discuss continuing education as a developer and what they've experienced over the last decade. The two cover the benefits of side projects and the impact taking them to production has both from a learning perspective and the effectiveness of how it sharpens your skills.

#### About Luc

Luc is an AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Engineer at PostNL, where he designs and builds enterprise-scale serverless architectures. He is well known for his articles, presentations, videos, and podcasts about AWS. Luc strives to help team members, colleagues, and local and global AWS communities embrace and grow their skill sets so they too can experience the joy, fun, and sheer scale serverless brings to application development.

#### Links

* Luc on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/donkersgood) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/donkersgoed)
* [Personal blog](https://lucvandonkersgoed.com/)
* [AWS News](https://aws-news.com)
* [Empowered - Marty Cagan](https://www.amazon.com/EMPOWERED-Ordinary-Extraordinary-Products-Silicon/dp/111969129X)
* [The Software Engineer’s Guidebook - Gergely Orosz](https://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineers-Guidebook-Navigating-positions/dp/908338182X)
* [Team Topologies - Matthew Skelton](https://www.amazon.com/Team-Topologies-Organizing-Business-Technology/dp/1942788819)
* [Learning Domain Driven Design - Vlad Khononov](https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Domain-Driven-Design-Aligning-Architecture/dp/1098100131)
* [Architecture Patterns with Python - Bob Gregory and Harry Percival](https://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Patterns-Python-Domain-Driven-Microservices/dp/1492052205)