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16 best entry-level IT certifications to launch your career

CIO

Exam fee: $300 Cisco Certified Technician (CCT) The Cisco Certified Technician certification verifies your ability to diagnose, restore, repair, and replace critical Cisco networking and system devices at customer sites. The CCT Data Center certification covers support and maintenance of Cisco Unified Computing systems and server.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Mike Marquez, CircleCI Senior Release Engineer

CircleCI

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

Their programming and system creation skills aren’t the levels that you’d see from a programmer or data engineer— nor should they be. Data engineers’ skills. At their core, data engineers have a programming background. They have an emphasis or specialization in distributed systems and big data. Overlapping skills.