Exactly how to develop a career creating the new wave of connected software.

Amazon is the business of the cloud and JavaScript/NodeJS is the language of the cloud. We are slowly experiencing a change in direction by Amazon Web Services away from established programming languages like PHP and Java to the language of the Web; JavaScript. Taking note that the newly introduced and quite ground-breaking offering Lambda only supported NodeJS when it was released to the market. Java introduction to Lambda arrived much later. Why is JavaScript growing in popularity at the expense of the established programming languages on Amazon such as Java? The first point is performance. JavaScript was designed purely for the Internet and no other language can beat it in this application. Node.js is a reasonably fresh development environment and was invented in 2009 by Mr. Dahl. Expectedly the software development community laughed at the idea of implementing JavaScript in a serious server side environment. JavaScript was regarded as a unprofessional language primarily for internet site designers not serious developers. Notwithstanding this, after experiencing other programming languages without success, he found the implementation of Google's V8 JavaScript engine on the server allowed efficiency far exceeding that of other established server-side languages. So how is JavaScript innovative and how does it achieve such excellent results easily? It turns out that the past shortcoming of JavaScript, its inability to block I/O, is in fact its secret strength. This is all thanks to the Google V8 engine. Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby and others do an excellent job at blocking I/O at the expense of speed. Coders new to NodeJS find this concept hard to understand initially and experience themselves becoming frustrated at software that just does not operate as they presumed it would. Many just stop and explain it as the amateur language not working. Those that hang in there and accept the change, find themselves writing very quick, lightweight and robust software. The next important feature of JavaScript is its capability to run everywhere, on every device, server-side, client side and even in desktop Chrome/PhoneGap/Cordova apps. This is important when you consider the capability to simply synchronize data in the client to the server. The line between server-side and browser becomes unclear and all the end-user experiences is fast access and processing of data. This not only creates a excellent user experience it massively minimizes your Amazon server and data transfer costs. JavaScript takes complete advantage of the user's device processing and storage resources. Not only are these apps fast, they are visually spectacular. Famo.us, Meteor, AngularJS, Polymer… the list goes on, enable programmers to design applications significantly more powerful and enjoyable than we have ever experienced before. Animations that communicate straight with the GPU are super smooth, data is upgraded in real time on-the-wire and everything works out of the box. This has established a problem for companies facing competitive pressures that understand the new stream of applications can make or break organisations. Establishing a dependable, beautiful and interactive customer experience is the best marketing companies could possibly make. This also provides an opportunity for programmers to position themselves at the begining of the next big thing and set themselves up for a long and sustainable career. So where do you start? AWS provide a great certification path for coders through their AWS Certified Developer Associate and Certified DevOps Engineer Professional certifications. To complete this certification exam you need to be able to code Amazon products using one language. Needless to say, the intelligent choice is JavaScript. Enrol in a course that focuses on JavaScript and NodeJS and covers all the Amazon Web Services reference material needed for certification. Use a good quality exam engine that uses an expert system to test your knowledge. Don't be tempted to purchase the "question dumps" on the market. These are not current and have plenty of errors. Attempting to remember exam questions will only lead to failure. Once you have received certification you can then join the exclusive LinkedIn groups and AWS networking events. The marketing people at Amazon can give excellent assistance and insight into how to build your network of potential customers. Amazon Web Services certification really changed my employment life and I am convinced it will make a difference to yours. For more info please take a look at view site.... Also, you can go to BackSpace Academy Google Plus.