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Ask HN: What to learn as a back end developer
My employer is offering us to do some java certification or other learnings during the work hours. I will definitely take up this offer but I was thinking is getting java certificate even worth it?
The employer is not demanding that I do java learnings I can chose some other stuff aswell if I want to.
I am turning to you guys to recommend me anything intersetng that could be useful for my career and my employer
I am interested in devops, backend engineering, blockchain, opensource etc...
- ianpurton 5y agoThe following skills are worth having and are portable between jobs. DevSecOps - Notice the 'Sec' very important. Focus on github actions. Kubernetes - Be able to deploy containers you created with your DevSecOps pipeline. Infra structure as Code - In particular Pulumi. Works well with Kubernetes. Rust - Makes you a better programmer.
- random_kris 5y agoI am looking for specific resources. I probably cannot just say I will learn rust while others get java certs. But if I show them some option to get rust certification then they would agree. Thanks for pointers anyway!
- apuchitnis 5y agoI'd take a look at this: https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer Lots of great content about the basics of system design, should be very helpful for someone new to backend.