Essential Tech Skills for 2025

This video discusses the crucial technology skills needed in 2025, emphasizing the evolving landscape of AI and cloud computing. The speaker highlights DevOps and AWS as particularly important areas of focus.

The Rise of AI Adoption

The adoption of AI has increased significantly, leading to a high demand for powerful hardware to run AI models. Two main approaches to running these models are using on-site hardware or utilizing cloud computing services.

Cloud Computing: Beyond Storage

The speaker points out that cloud computing is no longer just about storage; it’s about running services like Netflix without physical servers. This makes cloud computing skills extremely important for the future.

AWS: A Powerful Cloud Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is presented as a highly valuable platform. Its certifications are widely recognized, and AWS offers free tier access and learning resources.

AWS Certification Value

The speaker emphasizes the high value of AWS certifications, stating that holding one signifies expertise and increases job prospects.

DevOps: Collaboration and Efficiency

DevOps is described as a methodology focused on collaboration, streamlining, and improving collaboration. Key DevOps skills include running containers (Kubernetes), and managing CI/CD pipelines (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment).

CI/CD Pipelines

CI/CD pipelines automate the build process, allowing for quick updates and deployments. The speaker uses the example of updating facebook.com to illustrate this.

DevOps as a High-Paying Role

DevOps is highlighted as one of the highest-paying developer roles in the current market.

Learning Resources: Simplifying Learning

The speaker recommends Simplilearn's programs for learning cloud computing and AWS. Simplilearn is described as a premier online course platform with high ratings.

Simplilearn's AWS Cloud Architect Master's Program

This program is specifically recommended for learning AWS comprehensively, offering step-by-step learning, electives, and AWS certification exam preparation.

Simplilearn's Program Features

Step-by-step learning path
Elective options
AWS certification exam preparation
Covers various AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, SQS, KMS)

Cloud Computing Market Growth

The global cloud computing market is projected to reach trillions of dollars, creating a huge demand for skilled professionals in cloud computing, cloud engineering, solutions architecture, and DevOps engineering.

A Strategy for Skill Acquisition

The speaker advises current coders to continue their existing work while gradually learning deployment, DevOps, and AWS basics. They recommend creating a free-tier AWS account and deploying code to practice.

Interconnected Fields: Software & DevOps Engineering

Combining software engineering and DevOps skills is highlighted as a path to becoming a highly valuable professional.

Getting Started with AWS

The speaker suggests starting with AWS free tutorials and creating a free-tier account. They recommend pursuing the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification, and learning Docker and Kubernetes.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification

This certification is presented as an important and accessible first step in learning AWS.

The 2025 Opportunity

The speaker emphasizes that 2025 offers significant opportunities in these fields, driven by the AI boom and the increasing demand for these skills.

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