rambossa

Personally, I feel as though they are getting out of hand. A guy in my org literally has 5 certs, and does very minimal AWS work (basic web product). I have no certs and am building out cloud native apps in AWS doing things like batch processing millions of customer data. I'm not knocking being able to learn and enhance your skillset and marketability... I just think something is fundamentally flawed here(maybe its the pre-reqs, or the acloudguru focused training on getting a passing exam score).

We incentivize devs in our development program to get certs, but those devs will rarely ever touch production AWS work for a couple years - no trust & no valid experience. I am given no incentive/time to get a cert in office hours (so yea, I'm a bit salty).

On LinkedIn, I literally see 10s of posts with some dev boasting about their new cert, but I can't imagine that many devs actually doing serious AWS work. Seriously, a kid a year out of college who mostly tweaks CSS and iOS UIs is now a "Certified Solutions Architect" on LinkedIn.

It's now 2018. Most hype and notable examples I saw with RN were around 2016 (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html).

What is the state of React Native today? How are you using it successfully, and at what scale? Any large applications that have fully implemented it?

My success isn't beyond fast proofs-of-concepts or simple ux applications. Success for me is defined as a system engineered simply and effectively.

So my naive assumption is that it cannot reach much "success" beyond the hype it generates in the JS community. I work on production native iPad apps with iOS, and can not imagine that their development in RN would be "simple" like it is natively. Cross-platform is great & I can develop fast with RN-- But, I always feel like something is off, and that I'm engineering around leaky-abstractions and that "custom tweaks/hacks" occur more often than not (which rarely occur when working with native SDKs).