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Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

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Transition from Enterprise Java to OctoPrint in Python

The chapter details the speaker's journey from working with enterprise Java to creating OctoPrint in Python, sharing their experience of being crowdfunded after losing their full-time job. It discusses the challenges of funding open source projects, the success of community support, and the responsibility felt with the project's widespread reach. Additionally, it explores the speaker's fulfillment in helping others through engineering work, reflections on coding styles, switching between Python and JavaScript, and challenges faced in upgrading users to Python 3.

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