Big Data Or Cloud Computing for Career Growth??

Question

i have 7 years experience in .NET (.NET/MVC). i am planning to upgrade my skills to Big Data or Cloud Computing. which one do you think is better and why?

Mehreen Tahir · Answer

Both are hot right now and will be staying for a while according to what analysts say. Big Data has huge scoop whereas Cloud is taking up the market so both are a good move for the career. Now the question Which one should you opt depends entirely on your interest and comfortability. You have sound experience to judge for yourself you're more into managing an infrastructure or Coding and Data analysis. Speaking of the Job market, currently Big Data is offering more opportunities in current IT field. According to a research (I read it somewhere but can't remember the reference so my apologies for that) US is already facing shortage of people with deep analytical tallent whereas IT pros are more optimistic about finding cloud professionals. Now the part of my recommendataion, I would suggest to go for both hands in hands. Why? Because the combination of the two techs brings more profit for the business and so are getting high in demand. Cloud manages the local software and Big data helps in business decision meaning more revenue with less investment cost. Let me put here Big Data-cloud relationship model that might help you better understand what do i mean. hat's the reason why Hadoop, Map Reduce etc are becoming the trend. If you need more facts from market then here's the analysis. Only the Hadoop market is standing around US$8,166.0 mn (as per 2017) and is likely to rise about US$37,759.0 mn by 2023. There's going to be more demand but less professionals meaning a predicted rise in salary. Hope this answers your question but again which career you opt should be more based on your interest because I believe your interest will make you put more effort in your work and thus you can create lot more opprotunities of yourself even if there aren't much.

Habeeb · Answer

Thank you.