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I dont know if this is the right place to ask it, but I will go: Sometimes I see job offers that ask for experience with large websites, large databases, large
by pmtarantino 10y ago
I dont know if this is the right place to ask it, but I will go:
Sometimes I see job offers that ask for experience with large websites, large databases, large servers, etc, etc, etc (you get the idea).
How do you land those jobs if getting in that kind of subject is impossible alone? You can't simulate that kind of things at your home, so unless your side project grow and you must learnt it the hard way, or you had luck to be at a company where they allowed you to be involved, how do you learn that? Thank you
- agotterer 10y agoYou don't need to work for a company with large datasets to start learning and playing with large datasets. There are freely available repositories of data you can play with. Checkout the AWS public datasets - https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/ https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/. There should be more then enough there for you to start playing with "big data" tools and getting familiar with how to store, ETL, and query large datasets.
- pmtarantino 10y agoYes, but when a company asks for experience they aren't thinking in playing with large datasets unless you create an open source tool that becomes useful for a lot of people. Just playing with them wouldn't be suffice.
- tacostakohashi 10y agoA "large dataset" is basically one that doesn't fit in memory. It doesn't need to be large in absolute terms.