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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?
#52Things that I recommend to my team when it comes to learning funds like this
(aside from what else have been recommended)
- JetBrains IDE (personal) https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/?section=personal&billing... - All Products US $289.00
- Courses from https://www.educative.io/explore
- Coursera Plus https://www.coursera.org/courseraplus
Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
#53Earlier 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 thought the Developer and Solutions Architect were both a complete waste of time compared to actual day to day work with AWS.
Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
#54Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but it's worth checking: https://www.aboutamazon.com/aws/news/aws-cloud-institute-vir...
Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
#55These 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
Check your local library; mine has free O'Reilly access. ACM used to (maybe still does?) offer O'Reilly access as well, but it was a limited subset.
Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
#56I 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…
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Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
#57Not for OP but for others (since it's above the budget), take a David Beazley course. $1500 and write your own implementation of Raft. Learning more about distributed systems is really one of the best investments you could make as a backend engineer. It's the tech that powers distributed systems like Kubernetes (via Etcd), Consul, Vault, Elasticsearch, Redpanda, Cockroach, Yugabyte, etc. And you'll have to figure out…
I took his Build a Compiler in Python course, and I honestly found it to be lackluster.
He had just changed the format, though, and our class was his first of a new wave where he supplied us with no example code, instead making us write it all out by hand.
By the end of the five-day course, virtually no one had a working toy compiler of any kind. Maybe a parser and AST representation, but not the whole shebang.
His style of teaching is not as compelling as his live, on-stage presentations, in my opinion.
If I had paid with my own money, I would've been pissed. Caveat emptor.
Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
#58Invest the $400 into learning using either cloud offerings or physical hardware. Certifications are usually a waste of time.
Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
#59Earlier 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 was an AWS employee for 5 years, launched a new AWS service, and don’t have that. I guess my dreams are crushed without the Solutions Architect Associate credentials, lol.
Re: Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 was an AWS employee for 5 years, launched a new AWS service, and don’t have that. I guess my dreams are crushed without the Solutions Architect Associate credentials, lol.
I was an AWS employee too and found that people building services basically lived in a completely different world, hardly ever actuallyusing AWS - so I'm not surprised.