AWS Certifications?

[legion]

Are they worthwhile? Do they really require six months experience to be able to have a reasonable chance of passing the exams?

[wilnj]

If you’re doing structural work which requires a special inspection all welders must be certified.

If not required by code, then it would be up to whoever is hiring you.


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[jcommin]

American Watercolor Society? Do you paint in watercolors?

[id10t]

amazon web services? i wanna be one of the drunken monkeys

[Scott R]

I have Architect Associate and Professional. Six months experience would help, but you can find all the answers on the popular on-line sites for the usual $90 or so dollars. Memorize those and you can walk in and walk out of the exam.

Oh, are they worth it? Yes definitely.

[stealthn]

Depends what you want to be when you grow up...

We are seeing more demand for Azure skills than Amazon right now.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by stealthn

Depends what you want to be when you grow up...

We are seeing more demand for Azure skills than Amazon right now.

I know nothing about code, but I’d imagine this is the heart of it. If you want to work with AWS stuff it’d be worth it.

AWS stole our IT guy and he is flying all over training folks now. 40 weeks a year on the road of groups flying him in to train, so somebody’s using it!

[legion]

Originally Posted by id10t

amazon web services? i wanna be one of the drunken monkeys

Yes, this. Didn't realize that AWS had other acronyms.

And we're not "drunken monkeys". We are on carefully calibrated intravenous ethanol/saline drips.

[Scott R]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

I know nothing about code, but I’d imagine this is the heart of it. If you want to work with AWS stuff it’d be worth it.

AWS stole our IT guy and he is flying all over training folks now. 40 weeks a year on the road of groups flying him in to train, so somebody’s using it!

Netflix, Boeing, scores of others. But the same can be said of Azure.

[legion]

I'm currently doing Java on WAS with some ODM.

Go seems like an interesting language.

I also have doubts about NoSQL for the type of stuff I do. Answering questions like: "How many widgets did we make that were within .002% of max spec during third shift in April?" seems to be a bit difficult to try to get at with unstructured data.

[id10t]

Originally Posted by legion

Yes, this. Didn't realize that AWS had other acronyms.

And we're not "drunken monkeys". We are on carefully calibrated intravenous ethanol/saline drips.

Was referring to the internal random breakage program they used to use, called something Simian. So, drunken monkey - wander around and break stuff to constantly test fail over and DR times. No reference to your Librarian-ness, lack thereof, or BAC levels implied.

[Scott R]

Simian Army it’s what Netflix actually came up with to stress test their systems by intentionally breaking their systems.

[Paul_Heery]

I passed all of my exams through self-study. But, I had a few months of experience under my belt with AWS projects. Maybe 3 months, but not 6.

Azure has made some inroads. But, one of the key drivers we see with that is that MS is throwing MDF at customers to fund migrations to their cloud.

We are seeing increased interest in GCP. But no real momentum there yet.

Was that enough acronyms for one post?

[Paul_Heery]

Originally Posted by Scott R

Simian Army it’s what Netflix actually came up with to stress test their systems by intentionally breaking their systems.

That has been replaced with Chaos Monkey

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by legion

Yes, this. Didn't realize that AWS had other acronyms.

And we're not "drunken monkeys". We are on carefully calibrated intravenous ethanol/saline drips.

Honestly, I thought you were looking to become a certified welder. AWS - American Welding Society

[legion]

Not that I don't enjoy welding Jim, but after taking a few welding classes a decade or so ago, I don't think I'd get along with my coworkers so well.

[Alan A]

Originally Posted by legion

Go seems like an interesting language.

Been writing a little chaincode in Go.
Not a big fan. But also far from being an expert.

The formatting requirements seem too pedantic.
Error handling is a pain.
It seems difficult to write concise, comprehensible code. Which is odd given the authors messed with the C syntax with the aim of making it more concise.

It may be my lack of familiarity with it that’s causing this, but tbh I’d rather spend time improving my python skills (mostly for scikit-learn) if I were to choose to learn something different.