5 Tech Skills You Should Learn In 2021 - From Devops To System Design

If you're a developer in 2020, then you have probably come across a job description with a cornucopia of technical skill requirements.

For example, let's look at this set of technical skills required from a real job description taken off Indeed.com.

You might need to take a break halfway through reading.

The Job Description Experience with Jenkins and Terraform managed AWS infrastructure.

Experience with AWS services (ECR, Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch, Route53).

Hands on programming with Elixir, Python and Java.

Comfortable with support tools (Docker, Git, Bash, AWS CLI)

Production experience with ETL and asynchronous pipelines.

Experience with relational (Postgres/RDS) and nosql (DynamoDB) databases.

Demonstrated ability to actively participate in the design of complex systems.

Production network operations familiarity a plus.

Understanding of ML principles and NLP experience, Kaggle competitions a plus.

Experience with data science libraries (Scikit, NLTK, Gensim, TensorFlow, Keras).

Do You Have All Those Skills? So apparently this job is looking for a software engineer, data engineer, machine learning engineer, and DevOps engineer all in one.

In some ways, that is a little ridiculous.

Do software engineers really need all these skills these days?

Honestly, yeah, kind of.

But, also...kind of no.

But one other skill that wasn't mentioned was data engineering. If you're interested in learning more about data engineering, then check out the resources below.

Data Engineering Starter Road Map(Assuming you already know programming):

*1. Data Warehouse Fundamentals for Beginners - Applied DW and ETL design https://bit.ly/35zKfbf

*2. Anything by Frank Kane (Hadoop, Spark, etc) https://bit.ly/3gMLwAU

*3. Stop doing tutorials and build a project https://youtu.be/LJkVvNWlO0g

So good luck with your DE career. And here are some more resources you may enjoy.

What Skills Do Data Engineers Need? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgSHaOvNodA

If you want to learn more about data engineering, check out Googles Data Engineering Course

• https://bit.ly/3c3woxu

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