Getting certified for the sake of getting certified isn't really worth much - in fact, most of the technical courses I've been on could have been replaced with

Getting certified for the sake of getting certified isn't really worth much - in fact, most of the technical courses I've been on could have been replaced with a couple of days to read a thick book on the same subject. Even where the training was expensive (i.e. Red Hat), the course itself was mostly crap and the book was fine to pass any exams. If you want to back up what you say you can do, release some OSS or chip in to someone else's. If I were hiring I'd rather see someone that contributes to 10 Angular repos than someone that went to 'Angular Bootcamp' from some unknown startup in London.