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7 Programming Languages Every Cloud Engineer Should Know in 2024!

Pavan Belagatti on March 05, 2024

In recent years, mentoring at various coding bootcamps, I've had the unique opportunity to guide and support numerous junior developers passionate ...
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Shai Ber

Loved reading this, thanks Pavan!

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Pavan Belagatti

You are welcome, @shaiber

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Thana Paris

Great article! Wing seems very interesting. I wish you'd mentioned they are still in beta and don't consider themselves production ready yet. However, I will definitely be checking it out. Thank you!

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Reyas Khan

Wing & Rust , 🙌🏻 Great info. Thank you 💥

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Pavan Belagatti

Hope it was helpful:)

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Tandap Noel Bansikah

Great am currently learning rust now and after that i will learn go

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Pavan Belagatti

Great. Also take a look at Wing. The new entrant doing really well and a must learn for cloud engineers.

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Tandap Noel Bansikah

Thank you, I really appreciate 🙏

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David

Thanks Pavan for another great resource

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Pavan Belagatti

You are welcome, David!

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William

Great article!

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Pavan Belagatti

Thanks William.

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Bap

Makes me realise that I have to get into Rust at some point 😮‍💨
Really nice piece :)

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Pavan Belagatti

Also take a look at Wing:)

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Nathan Tarbert

Thanks for mentioning Wing Pavan!

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Pavan Belagatti

Wing is amazing and it has to be mentioned.

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Joseph

Thanks
I’m new here
And I want to learn

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Pavan Belagatti

Welcome to devto community. Happy learning!

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Thomas Beek

I thought I knew most modern languages but Wing snuck up on me. Thank you for this glimpse.

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Pavan Belagatti

You are welcome, Thomas!

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Alina

Great breakdown, Pavan!

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Pavan Belagatti

Thanks, Alina!

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stoopered

What's your opinion of using Zig instead of Rust?

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Pavan Belagatti

So I read that Zig is a better C, while Rust is a low-level ML. Zig is relatively a young language and yet to be explored. Rust has a decent community is what I know but haven't worked with Rust.

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Shpetim Haxhiu

Great insights @pavanbelagatti on Wing, Python, Go, and more! I wanted to chip in a few more tools that could be super useful for cloud engineers:

Infrastructure as Code & Config Management: Check out Pulumi (pulumi.com) for using languages like Python to define cloud infrastructures, or AWS CDK (aws.amazon.com/cdk) for building on AWS with ease. For direct platform integration, there's CloudFormation (AWS) and ARM Templates (Azure). And don't miss out on Ansible, Chef, and SaltStack for top-notch cloud management.

Cool Cloud Tools: The Serverless Framework (serverless.com) makes deploying apps across clouds a breeze, and GraphQL (graphql.org) offers efficient API interactions. For Kubernetes, Helm (helm.sh) is a lifesaver.

Monitoring & Observability: Keep tabs on everything with Prometheus (prometheus.io), go for an all-in-one solution with Datadog (datadoghq.com), or manage microservices smoothly with Jaeger (jaegertracing.io).

Databases for the Cloud: Don’t forget Amazon DynamoDB for serverless scaling, Google Cloud Spanner for global consistency, and CockroachDB for resilient, distributed SQL.

Hope these tools add more firepower to your cloud engineering toolkit. Keep up the awesome work ✌️

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Krishnan Raghavan

Fantastic read @pavanbelagatti . Thanks for sharing.

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Pavan Belagatti

You are welcome, Krishnan.

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click2install

Very few roles, if any, need to know all of these, none the least a cloud engineer.

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Chief Technical Officer

😂 this is so wrong my man. You left out the most widely used language on the internet, PHP? Over 70% of the web consists of PHP WordPress websites. I personally use Laravel Framework with TailwindCSS

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Joachim

Man, this is such an a obvious payed advertisement for wing.

It's listed as #1, it's the only point with several images, and the author replies to every comment with "you should checkout wing!!" 😅

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