who moved my cheese?<p>There is lots of opportunities now around Embedded Systems for web engineers due to the IoT (say what?). More precisely the <i>&quot;Web of Things&quot;</i> [1] (see also WoT W3 WG). I always considered the web my thing and only recently jumped (after long reluctance) onto this. There is a real get-go attitude in this domain and you can tell companies are willing to spend money on it which makes the same jobs less of an uphill struggle.<p>Most web developers I know wouldn&#x27;t touch anything embedded with a stick but this is really an interesting topic to get into. To explain why this is a good match consider that a lot of the fundamental skills stay same because it will essentially be built on the same concept of linkable data so you can take along all you know (e.g. REST, TCP&#x2F;IP, JavaScript, NodeJS). Also look into these IoT counterparts:<p><pre><code>   * JSON =&gt; JSON-LD [2]
   * HTTP =&gt; CoAP [3]

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If you like security there are massive challenges due to the real-life damage an exploit can cause (hacked insulin pumps, or vehicles etc.) but from skills pov again pretty much the same skills you can just carry across and apply them there.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.valbonne-consulting.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;the-web-of-things-needs-your-support&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.valbonne-consulting.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;the-web-of-th...</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;json-ld.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;json-ld.org&#x2F;</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc7252" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc7252</a>