Can You become a Serverless AWS Developer in 2023???

[@sc1975]

Hi Sam, I always benefit from your videos and appreciate your sharing. Happy 2022!

[@CompleteCoding]

Same to you!

[@capitalexnetwork8898]

Most important Serverless video on KZbin!

[@killerbottom]

Is a Serverless developer a cloud engineering or a solution architect but just specialized? Also how you define a job title to look for a position in Serverless development?

[@CompleteCoding]

I would use Serverless developer and Serverless engineer interchangeably. This is the person writing the code and Serverless config. Cloud engineer might include more traditional architecture in the cloud (ec2, networking, maybe kubernetes) as well as the serverless stuff. Always worth checking if looking at a job. Solution architect would be designing which services to use, how they connect, maybe the database schema. You can have serverless specialised solution architects (like myself) but also ones who specialise in traditional architectures, kubernetes etc. A solution architect often also does some of the implementation. And more experienced cloud/serverless engineers often are part of the solution design discussions.

[@killerbottom]

@@CompleteCoding thank you for your reply what would you say is the best job searching website to use and will you make a resume video to add with the projects in your courses.

[@killerbottom]

@@CompleteCoding is there a large demand in the current market for Serverless solutions architects like yourself and what I hope to be

[@lardosian]

Thanks for the breakdown. Coldstarts seem to be a common pain in the serverless world, is this something that's relatively easily overcome?

[@CompleteCoding]

Cold starts are something that is often raised as an issue but it usually doesn't have much of an impact. If you're building with JavaScript then you can expect between a 20-400ms increase in the response time of your API call when a cold start happens. If you have reasonably consistent usage of your API ( > a few calls/ min to each endpoint ) then you'll likely have a fraction of a percent of calls causing a cold start. There are ways to ensure that cold starts don't happen (provisioned capacity) and ways to 'pre-warm' your lambdas to reduce the number of times that a cold start could happen. Assuming you have one lambda per endpoint you can also add provisioning or 'pre-warming' to certain critical endpoints whilst leaving others default. I have a full video on cold starts. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZvEZ3iBe9SNhdU The only time I would ever really worry about cold starts is if I have a very latency dependant API that I need to make. If there is a requirement that all requests must return in under 0.3s then I would look into provisioned capacity.

[@lardosian]

@@CompleteCoding Thanks a lot mate.

[@jaredkeown]

Do you recommend any AWS certifications or are they not really necessary? For example, I see it often recommended to get the cloud practitioner & solutions architect associate for entry level / noobs?

[@CompleteCoding]

Cloud practitioner is a nice introduction to the most common services that aws offers. This is the only cert that I think someone starting with AWS should do. After that start learning to building projects. A job interview is the employer trying to work out if you're good enough of a developer to help build their product. Having lots of practical skills (demonstrated by some great projects) is the most applicable way to prove they youre a skilled dev. Improving your skills and building projects is the best use of your time. Having a cert just shows that you passed a multi choice quiz. Knowing about aws services is very different to being able to use them well. Once you've worked for about a year using AWS then getting a cert can be an extra thing to validate your skills. By then you should be getting 50%+ without any revision

[@OmpalSingh-pw7mc]

Great job👍

[@CompleteCoding]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@MrElsocio]

Awesome! :)

[@CompleteCoding]

Thanks

[@deepjagani7887]

Sir, why don't you make a course on aws on udemy. Your videos are absolutely amazing.

[@CompleteCoding]

I've thought about it. If I was going to create a course, I would want to make it an amazing course that covers a lot whilst also going into extra detail about the things that matter. That takes a lot of time and might mean that I wouldn't be able to do as much KZbin. Maybe at some point this year?

[@entrepreneurialhacks]

Hi, Sam Your are absolutely amazing all the best this 2.022

[@CompleteCoding]

Thank you! I hope you have an amazing 2022 too!

[@killerbottom]

Can becoming a severless developer be a entry level role into cloud computing?

[@CompleteCoding]

Yeh definitely. It was my first ever cloud job and I think it's a great way to get into the cloud. There are definitely easier jobs to get if it's your first coding job though. I worked as a frontend developer first. This helps get you some paid experience without having to learn about APIs, databases and security. The path I think is best Learn to Code => front end dev => full-stack (using serverless)

[@killerbottom]

Can Serverless be a good starting point for new developers

[@CompleteCoding]

It can be. Normally I say that becoming a front end (react) developer is the easiest entry point, but serverless developer isn't that far behind

[@sofimajeed8342]

Hi, sam i learned a lot from you. I feel bad when I see that your subscribe count is not increasing that much. Hope you will grow very soon. Inshallah

[@CompleteCoding]

Thanks Sofi. It's growing but not as quickly as I'd like. I've got some ideas for things to try out in 2022 that might really boost the channel.

[@manojkumar-jt3fw]

please suggest a course to learn Serverless 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@CompleteCoding]

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