Want to stay competitive in an ever-changing market? Be in demand? Be respected by your peers and by management? Influence decisions in your team? Boost your salary? Nail that dream job and build a remarkable career in software development?
Then you must keep an eye on the latest trends.
You do not want to let your skills become obsolete, you don’t want to struggle to find your next contract or beg for a paycheck in a few years from now. Or, even worse, be stuck in a role that you don’t enjoy, working on a boring, old, legacy project, losing all the passion and the love for you job.
All software developers know how hard it is to find the time and the energy to study and expand your technical skills outside of your full time job, after working long hours at the office. Family and friends always take priority. The last thing you want to do in the evening or at the weekend is picking up a heavy scholarly 500 pages tome, knowing that your brain will retain about 10% of what you read by the time you are finished, a month later.
Cloud Computing for Programmers is the opposite of that. You can get it for 4-5 bucks (not 40 or 50) and you can read it front to back in a day or less to learn everything you need to know RIGHT NOW about Cloud Computing and particularly how it will affect your day-to-day job and professional career as a software developer.
Introducing:
- The differences between traditional (on premise) software development and cloud-based development
- New tools the Cloud offers to streamline the software development lifecycle
- The new programming languages that are emerging and might shake up software development in this next phase
- How the Cloud is particularly suitable for mobile app development
- The two main types of APIs that you should become familiar with in order to implement interoperability between cloud-based systems
- The new form of NoSQL storage that has the potential to subvert the old relational model
- The challenges of programming for the Cloud
- The new jobs and roles that are gaining momentum in the IT space
Yes, you can find everything you want to know about this topic online... The Internet is filled with more information than you will be able to consume in a lifetime, and it keeps growing. If you have the time to look for it, research it and filter through all the average, inaccurate or misleading content out there, do not buy this book.
This book is for those who think their time is limited and valuable. For these people there's some good news: someone has already done all the legwork for you, attending conferences and certification programmes about Cloud Computing, testing different tools, platforms and programming languages. Two years of intense work summarized in 100 pages of great, specific, targeted content for you to easily take in and enjoy.
