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

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

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Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn »

moneywoes wrote: post #25
bdcravens wrote: post #5

Certs just aren't that important anymore, but if anything, I'd do the AWS cert. If you just want to improve your skills, a few good Udemy courses will take your far if you follow along.

Which AWS Cert in particular?

Solution Architect Associate is what I'd recommend to start with. Practitioner is for non-technical people, Developer Associate and Sysops Associate are just marginally different than SA, often focusing on services which are marginally useful at best (few people use AWS CI/CD solutions and it makes up most of the difference for developer cert), I wouldn't bother with them. I haven't heard anything about the data engineer one (it seems new).

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

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Post by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh »

qaq wrote: post #7
jumpman500 wrote: post #3

I don't think tech courses or certificates have ever been a top consideration when reviewing backend engineer qualifications. Only if we're hiring for a specific technology that's niche. Most certificates just teach you how to understand/sell a specific technology stack which sometimes is helpful, but other times can make you not see simpler solutions. I'd check out what's freely available first. Your 400 dollars is…

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.

Yeah, but then you'd have to work in consulting. ;)

A related idea is to just take the 400 bucks and spend it on AWS playing around. Spin up a few Kubernetes clusters, try out their various database offerings, maybe see if you can run a load-test and get your play system to auto-scale.

That would also require keeping a sharp eye on the billing side to make sure the total cost doesn't go over $400... but, hey, that's part of the learning, too!

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

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Post by utopcell »

AlexErrant wrote: post #34
Bognar wrote: post #4

Mid-level backend engineer? Buy the book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" and read it.

There's an audiobook too, if that's your style.

An audiobook is hardly an appropriate format for this kind of content. It is even worse for this book in particular since it contains a lot of figures and tables. YMMV.

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

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Post by clumsysmurf »

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 place to get the O'Reilly books.

Not sure whats going on here.

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