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> Certify yourself with official courses. Can anyone recommend some certifications that are worthwhile? I realize that this is a very broad ask, but the advise

by elric 4y ago

> Certify yourself with official courses. Can anyone recommend some certifications that are worthwhile? I realize that this is a very broad ask, but the advise is also rather broad.

eikenberry 4y ago
Just about any Certificate is worthwhile depending on your reasons. Best case I've seen them used for is to help you break into new technology areas, EG. you want to work as an SRE for AWS services, having a few AWS Certificates under your belt might be just enough to get you that interview (plus you'd kill at AWS trivia nights).
- intelVISA 4y ago
  Love AWS trivia. Most effective way to harm your employer's wallet? EKS?? EKS? EC2? EBS..? ELB..? Ah no way it was /data egress/ of course.
  - SquibblesRedux 4y ago
    I have always wondered -- what makes egress expensive? Are they just trying to keep everything in-house, or is there some real cost to egress?
    - poxrud 4y ago
      That’s how they can afford to give you other services for cheap. Their egress costs are negligible.
    - pclmulqdq 4y ago
      Egress costs are the walls that keep you in the garden.
- oneepic 4y ago
  I'd absolutely go to an AWS trivia night/lunch hour at work. Maybe GCP? Azure?
hiAndrewQuinn 4y ago
_one word answer: AWS_ There's a lot of conceptual carryover between cloud platform offerings, so getting _any_ of the big 3 (GCP, AWS, Az) is likely to help you out a ton of you're new to the space. Much like how your first programming language took much longer than your second through fifth ones, learning your first platform well enough to get employed is much more challenging than filing the serials number off and learning the new quirks of the other two. In the absence of further information as to your career goals, I'd lightly recommend AWS. It came into existence years before the others and can offer SLAs that approach "this S3 bucket will outlive you in the event of thermonuclear war". Azure is where I have lived so far in my career and it seems to be catering more towards enterprise and government needs. I actually imagine finding an Azure shop is harder than an AWS shop if you haven't already worked at one before, but it's a pretty sweet gig otherwise. GCP goes the other direction from what I've seen - much more startup-oriented, as the newest kid on the block itself. It looked nice from the last time I played around with it. Kubernetes exists as a useful "stage 2" if you want to go further down the pipeline, as a technology whose business raison d'etre is to commoditize cloud providers. _In theory_ a Kubernetes cluster can be engineered to run unaltered on any of the big 3, since they all offer k8s clusters. It's also totally cool to say that's okay thanks, I'll stick with simple architectures and a focus on getting MVPs out the door rapidly. For me $DAYJOB is spent between Azure and k8s, but my side projects start the same way every time - SQLite, Django, and _maybe_ Docker Compose to sidecar Litestream if I'm feeling extra infra-inclined that day. Really there's no reason to get dogmatic about anything in a space with so many options.

by elric 4y ago

> Certify yourself with official courses. Can anyone recommend some certifications that are worthwhile? I realize that this is a very broad ask, but the advise is also rather broad.

eikenberry 4y ago

Just about any Certificate is worthwhile depending on your reasons. Best case I've seen them used for is to help you break into new technology areas, EG. you want to work as an SRE for AWS services, having a few AWS Certificates under your belt might be just enough to get you that interview (plus you'd kill at AWS trivia nights).

intelVISA 4y ago
Love AWS trivia. Most effective way to harm your employer's wallet? EKS?? EKS? EC2? EBS..? ELB..? Ah no way it was /data egress/ of course.
- SquibblesRedux 4y ago
  I have always wondered -- what makes egress expensive? Are they just trying to keep everything in-house, or is there some real cost to egress?
  - poxrud 4y ago
    That’s how they can afford to give you other services for cheap. Their egress costs are negligible.
  - pclmulqdq 4y ago
    Egress costs are the walls that keep you in the garden.
oneepic 4y ago
I'd absolutely go to an AWS trivia night/lunch hour at work. Maybe GCP? Azure?

hiAndrewQuinn 4y ago

_one word answer: AWS_ There's a lot of conceptual carryover between cloud platform offerings, so getting _any_ of the big 3 (GCP, AWS, Az) is likely to help you out a ton of you're new to the space. Much like how your first programming language took much longer than your second through fifth ones, learning your first platform well enough to get employed is much more challenging than filing the serials number off and learning the new quirks of the other two. In the absence of further information as to your career goals, I'd lightly recommend AWS. It came into existence years before the others and can offer SLAs that approach "this S3 bucket will outlive you in the event of thermonuclear war". Azure is where I have lived so far in my career and it seems to be catering more towards enterprise and government needs. I actually imagine finding an Azure shop is harder than an AWS shop if you haven't already worked at one before, but it's a pretty sweet gig otherwise. GCP goes the other direction from what I've seen - much more startup-oriented, as the newest kid on the block itself. It looked nice from the last time I played around with it. Kubernetes exists as a useful "stage 2" if you want to go further down the pipeline, as a technology whose business raison d'etre is to commoditize cloud providers. _In theory_ a Kubernetes cluster can be engineered to run unaltered on any of the big 3, since they all offer k8s clusters. It's also totally cool to say that's okay thanks, I'll stick with simple architectures and a focus on getting MVPs out the door rapidly. For me $DAYJOB is spent between Azure and k8s, but my side projects start the same way every time - SQLite, Django, and _maybe_ Docker Compose to sidecar Litestream if I'm feeling extra infra-inclined that day. Really there's no reason to get dogmatic about anything in a space with so many options.