[geerlingguy]

The certs are more just to tick some checkboxes when working with certain enterprise clients (my guess).

I hate certs, but if you want in on certain projects, it doesn't hurt to have the desired certs, especially if you can get your employer to foot the bill.

Anyways, knowing him personally, I can attest he's a really good dev and wholesome person. Sad to see this site get bogged down with malicious activity, because like downforeveryoneorjustme, I kind of have it committed to muscle memory. Hope CloudFlare can keep it going strong!

[indigodaddy]

Yeah he seems like an awesome dude and engineer/leader. Definitely will be following his blog now. Interestingly however, I had never heard of icanhazip before today. Had always used ifconfig.me.

[Cthulhu_]

The certs prove you have the knowledge, so you don't have to boast. I've only got one certificate (AWS generic one), and I underestimated how much you need to study for things like that. I mean that was more of a nice to have, I don't actually have aspirations to go into AWS or the "ops" side of things, I just felt like it was something I needed to know more about.

[indigodaddy]

Yeah once your career is somewhat established, they don’t mean all that much. My RHCA (Administrator) aged out in 2017, and I’ve felt little need to renew it.