My thoughts after successful Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified Associate exam

Last week I was very busy so it was hard to find a few free cycles to write about it. Yes, I have passed recently Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified Associate exam. Frankly speaking, it was obvious for me I need to do it. I am a hardcore developer here at FoggyKitchen, mostly with Terraform, but I am also writing a lot of stuff in Ansible for Oracle, for example, Ansible-Database-Migration-Tool (ADMT). You are probably curious if this certification is important and if it is worth spending time on it. Well… I guess it is. The modern world is changing like crazy. Especially now during the COVID-19 outbreak, which transforms business in an extremely fast way. I have heard that recently some big CEO has told that staying away from the cloud today would be like planing to extinct soon. Maybe this is too radical for me, but it gives a sense of mindset shift and technological revolution we are approaching today. I am not sure how it looks like at your place, but in my location, in Poland, after full lockdown, all educational activities have been moved from analog to digital. The teachers must deliver e-schooling via Zoom or on the other platforms. On the other hand, the shops are adapting very quickly to provide a nice and easy e-commerce experience with the delivery of all goodies at your footsteps in your house. For example, I was shocked it wasn’t possible to buy new shoes in the mall for my kids (full lockdown means malls are closed). The spring has approached and their feet were just bigger. There were no excuses. I have done it via e-shop…

And here is a big question. Who will build this brand new world of e-shops, e-schools, e-something, etc? There will be a massive need for cloud developers. The army of flexible programmers capable to utilize all of the features of the modern clouds. That is is why it is worth spending time on this topic – learn about OCI Event Services and OCI Functions,  explore OCI API Gateway, Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE),  OCI Autonomous Databases and  OCI Web Application Firewall (WAF). And of course, it is a good idea to get skills and hands-on experience with Terraform (here is my tutorial).

What do you think about it? I am very excited about your feedback in this field…

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Martin, The Cook.