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2021 Data/AI Salary Survey

O'Reilly

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. As we’ll see later, cloud certifications (specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure) were the most popular and appeared to have the largest effect on salaries. The top certification was for AWS (3.9%

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Symphonia at Velocity 2018, and more Serverless Insights

The Symphonia

I was fortunate to be both presenting a 2-day workshop (on AWS Serverless Architectures and Continuous Deployment) as well as hosting a full-day Serverless track of talks. Donna Malayeri gave a wonderful talk at a Serverless conference in New York last year, showing a sequence of surprising capabilities of Microsoft Azure. Great stuff!

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

The results for data-related topics are both predictable and—there’s no other way to put it—confusing. Starting with data engineering, the backbone of all data work (the category includes titles covering data management, i.e., relational databases, Spark, Hadoop, SQL, NoSQL, etc.). This follows a 3% drop in 2018.