Engineering Secrets

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Use Google

Never memorize something that you can look up - Albert Einstein

Every experienced Engineer uses Google

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Google Our oracle.
Stack Overflow Almost every question you might have (even very specific ones) was already made and answered in Stack Overflow
Github “Awesome” Lists
 
 
 
 		 This is a movement where engineers started to share curated links on Github, for example
  • Awesome Styleguides
  • Awesome Go
  • Awesome Machine Learning
    Check out for more … Awesome Curated Lists

    • Copy-Paste

    Don’t be ashamed to copy-paste PUBLIC code snippets written by others. You are not alone so probably the problem you are facing has already been addressed by someone else.

    References

    		 The Manager’s Path - by Camille Frontier
    A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
    Key takeaways
  • “One-on-one meetings with your manager are an essential feature of a good working relationship.”
  • “A manager’s job involves making it easy for her employees to get things done by creating fertile environments in which work can happen.”
  • “Mentoring new hires is critical.”
  • “Feedback works best when you, as a manager, pair that feedback with coaching.”
  • “It’s unrealistic to think you can or should shield your team from everything.”
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    		Production-Ready Microservices - by Susan Fowler
    Building Standardized Systems Across an Engineering Organization
    		Microservices Patterns - by Chris Richardson
    		Refactoring - by Martin Fowler
    Improving the Design of Existing Code