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Top Certifications for Backend Developers

AWS

Here are the certifications focused twards software engineeers and solution architects.

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

  • Focuses on developing and deploying applications on AWS. 
  • Covers AWS SDKs, serverless computing, CI/CD, and security best practices. 
  • Suitable for software engineers and developers working on AWS-based applications.

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

  • Covers designing scalable, secure, and highly available applications on AWS. 
  • Focuses on AWS architecture best practices, networking, and storage. 
  • Suitable for software engineers and DevOps professionals designing cloud applications.

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

  • Advanced certification for designing complex AWS solutions at scale. 
  • Covers high availability, disaster recovery, multi-tier architectures, and migration strategies. 
  • Suitable for experienced software architects and cloud engineers.

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Here are the certifications focused on DevOps.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

  • Focuses on system operations, automation, and AWS administration. 
  • Covers monitoring, logging, security, and performance tuning. 
  • Suitable for DevOps engineers managing AWS infrastructure.

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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

  • Focuses on advanced DevOps practices using AWS. 
  • Covers automation, CI/CD, monitoring, infrastructure as code (IaC), and security. 
  • Suitable for experienced DevOps engineers working on AWS automation and deployments.

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Kubernetes

If you are planning to get certified in Kubernetes, then start with CKAD and then go for CKA(at the expert level).

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer(CKAD)

  • Focuses on managing and administering Kubernetes clusters. 
  • Covers installation, networking, storage, security, troubleshooting, and cluster maintenance.

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Certified Kubernetes Administrator(CKA)

  • Geared toward developers deploying applications on Kubernetes. 
  • It covers topics like pod design, configuration, multi-container pods, observability, and networking.

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Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist(CKS)

This is an advanced-level certification. 

  • Designed for security professionals who secure Kubernetes environments. 
  • Covers security best practices, runtime security, network policies, and Kubernetes hardening.

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Kafka

Here are 2 Kafka certifications by Confluent-

Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK)

  • Focuses on Kafka application development.
  • Covers producer/consumer API, Kafka Streams, schema management, and best practices.
  • Suitable for software engineers building event-driven applications.

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Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAK)

  • Focuses on Kafka cluster management and administration.
  • Covers topics like broker setup, monitoring, security, multi-cluster deployment, and troubleshooting.
  • Suitable for DevOps engineers, system administrators, and cloud engineers managing Kafka clusters.

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Elastic

Here are certifications provided by Elastic-

Elastic Certified Engineer

  • Focuses on core Elasticsearch operations, including cluster management, indexing, searching, and optimization.
  • Suitable for engineers and administrators working with Elasticsearch in production environments.

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Elastic Certified Analyst

  • Focuses on using Kibana to analyze and visualize data in Elasticsearch.
  • Suitable for business analysts, data scientists, and security professionals who work with Elastic dashboards.

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Elastic Certified Observability Engineer

  • Covers observability solutions using Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash.
  • Suitable for DevOps engineers and SREs managing logs, metrics, and application performance monitoring (APM).

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MySQL

MySQL certificates provided by oracle-

MySQL 8.0 Database Developer Professional

  • Covers SQL queries, data manipulation, stored procedures, triggers, and MySQL programming.
  • Suitable for developers working with MySQL databases.

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MySQL 8.0 Database Admin Professional

  • Covers MySQL architecture, installation, configuration, security, and basic performance tuning.
  • Suitable for experienced MySQL DBAs managing production databases.

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