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Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?

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Post by anyoneamous »

moneywoes wrote: post #24
qaq wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Highly depends many consulting shops have to have requisite amount of AWS certified professionals to maintain the partnership status with AWS. They highly value people who have appropriate AWS certs.

which AWS certs are these in particular? Is worth considering other certs e.g. gcp, azure for the same reason?

Solutions Architect Associate is the way to go - definitely the broadest coverage and most approachable. Won't get you a job by itself but I would find it a bit odd if I was hiring someone who works with AWS already and doesn't have this.

Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?

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Post by jjackson5324 »

clumsysmurf wrote: post #39
jjackson5324 wrote: post #17

These are mostly learning resources rather than certifications.... For backend engineering specific, some free & paid resources are - O'Reilly Membership - This is a gold mine. For the $400 I believe you can purchase a yearly membership, where you get access to the entire O'Reilly catalogue. Designing Data Intensive Applications is included of course. They also have some video courses & conference talks in addition t…

> O'Reilly Membership ... I've had mine for 2 years and have noticed in the past 6 mos or so, the rate of added books is really slowing down to a trickle. I used to check every day to see whats news, now I'm checking once a week. I'm waiting on stuff that was published months ago to show up in their catalog. I'm wondering if the other publishers (Manning, etc) are focusing on their own platforms. But its the only pla…

Interesting. I've noticed that they have a lot of books in "early release", so they're half-done.

But yeah, even despite that, I still think it's a good deal just for the back catalogue.

Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?

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Post by TimSchumann »

If you're just looking to become a better programmer, I'd recommend checking out Execute Program by Gary Bernhardt.

https://www.executeprogram.com/courses

Built in spaced repetition and covers a wide variety of concepts I think would be useful to you even in DevOps back end stuff, even if the language isn't specifically one you're using.

Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?

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Post by clumsysmurf »

jjackson5324 wrote: post #43
clumsysmurf wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> O'Reilly Membership ... I've had mine for 2 years and have noticed in the past 6 mos or so, the rate of added books is really slowing down to a trickle. I used to check every day to see whats news, now I'm checking once a week. I'm waiting on stuff that was published months ago to show up in their catalog. I'm wondering if the other publishers (Manning, etc) are focusing on their own platforms. But its the only pla…

Interesting. I've noticed that they have a lot of books in "early release", so they're half-done. But yeah, even despite that, I still think it's a good deal just for the back catalogue.

The O'Reilly pipeline seems normal, its the stuff from other publishers ...

Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?

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Post by realprimoh »

jjackson5324 wrote: post #17

These are mostly learning resources rather than certifications.... For backend engineering specific, some free & paid resources are - O'Reilly Membership - This is a gold mine. For the $400 I believe you can purchase a yearly membership, where you get access to the entire O'Reilly catalogue. Designing Data Intensive Applications is included of course. They also have some video courses & conference talks in addition t…

Big fan of Quastor and ByteByteGo.

Some other resources I've found really helpful, especially as I've moved towards a backend/systems-heavy role at my job.

- roadmap.sh has a lot of resources that may help you figure out where gaps in your backend knowledge are.

- TLDR Web Dev is an useful daily resource for the latest articles and trends in software engineering.

- engineerscodex.com writes great articles about real-world software engineering, such as how Instagram scaled so much with a small team.

Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?

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Post by Aeolun »

anyoneamous wrote: post #42
moneywoes wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

which AWS certs are these in particular? Is worth considering other certs e.g. gcp, azure for the same reason?

Solutions Architect Associate is the way to go - definitely the broadest coverage and most approachable. Won't get you a job by itself but I would find it a bit odd if I was hiring someone who works with AWS already and doesn't have this.

> I would find it a bit odd if I was hiring someone who works with AWS already and doesn't have this

Is it? I work with AWS every day, and I feel like getting the certificate will add absolutely nothing to my expertise, so it’s just wasted money.

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