Re:The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the ...
by nicoburns on Saturday February 02, 2019 @01:25PM
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That doesn't really surprise me. It just strikes me that the level of knowledge/skill necessary to manage that isn't all that great.
It especially confuses me that people want people to "learn" serverless functions. Serverless functions are just like normal functions, except with a library to use for communicating with the outside world!
If I was hiring, then I'd be asking people about VPCs, IAM roles and Security Groups. Those seem to be the complicated bits that you need to understand to do pretty much anything. The service-specific APIs seem relatively simple...
It especially confuses me that people want people to "learn" serverless functions. Serverless functions are just like normal functions, except with a library to use for communicating with the outside world!
If I was hiring, then I'd be asking people about VPCs, IAM roles and Security Groups. Those seem to be the complicated bits that you need to understand to do pretty much anything. The service-specific APIs seem relatively simple...