Articles by Jeff Cogswell

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  Software Engineering Career Path: Which Will You Choose?

  When you enter the software engineering or development profession, you might wonder about the long-term career path. It’s quite different from a typical “corporate ladder” career path where you start in the mai…
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  Software Developer Degree: How Can You Earn One?

  While there are many routes to becoming a software developer, one is to go the full distance and get a four-year bachelor’s degree. Different colleges and universities use different names for what’s essentially…
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  How to Become a System Administrator

  Ready to become a system administrator (or sysadmin for short)? First, the title is extremely broad, with many specialties underneath it. After we talk about the role in general, we’ll drill into sysadmin speci…
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  Scrum Master Skills You Need to Know

  Scrum is a type of project management with a well-defined set of rules to create a product, usually a software app. The idea is to complete tiny parts of the app within two-week sprints. (Some teams might choos…
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  How to Become a Product Owner

  A product owner is a specific role in an Agile process. This person keeps careful track of the parts of the app that need to be built (called the backlog) and helps determine which tasks need to be performed, w…
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  Data Engineer Skills: What to Learn to Master the Role

  Data engineering is a critical job at a growing number of companies. Data engineers must construct and maintain vast repositories of data crucial to business operations; data scientists and data analysts depend…
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  How to Become a Python Developer

  Becoming a Python developer means learning much more than the Python language itself. It means learning how to use an entire set of tools as well as frameworks, which are sets of code written by other developer…
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  Amazon Web Services (AWS) SQL Databases: Learn This First

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers several options for databases—so many, that choosing one can be overwhelming, even for developers skilled in all things AWS. Where do you begin? Today let’s look at the differen…
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  Amazon Web Services (AWS) Compute: Which Works Best for You?

  You’ve built an amazing web app and you’re ready to deploy it to the cloud. After signing up with Amazon Web Services (AWS), you’re quickly overwhelmed with options for running your app. All these options fall…
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  Learning AWS: Custom CloudWatch Metrics From Your App

  CloudWatch is the AWS service for gathering data about the resources you’re using. It includes logs and graphs to help you analyze data such as processor and network usage. It’s such a vital part of your AWS wo…