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Hi everyone! 👋 I'm currently an engineering manager at Uber, in Amsterdam, where I help a team of developers grow every day. Before I transitioned into management, I was a developer for a long time, starting with web, then doing backend and mobile - all the way from Windows Phone, iOS, then Android.
I love to share what I learn learnings, both on my blog and I've written a few articles here as well. I've also recently started writing a book on growing as a software engineer, in a tech company or startup. This is from starting out at the first job, through leveling up to being senior, all the way to the staff/principal levels of making wide company or industry impact. I'm writing the type of book I wish I had earlier in my career. There's a lot of great books on how to write good code, but growing as a software engineer, working at a tech company goes well beyond just coding. If you'd like to get updates on the progress of this book, you can subscribe to updates or follow me here.
Finally, I'd like to share the top thing that helped me grow professionally, in all the environments I've worked in. Don't be afraid to ask the "stupid"/straightforward questions when you join a new company or team. No matter how inexperienced or experienced you are, being able to phrase what you don't know and ask for help really helps you and the person trying to help you. Early on in my career, I was lucky enough to do this subconsciously. Later, I started to do it consciously, whenever starting to learn a new technology. If there was someone around me who knew it well. I would tell them "I'll ask some basic questions when I'm stuck, but I promise to do my research before and not ask the same two questions ever." This simple thing helped me grow so much faster, I recommend you try it if you've not done it before.
I'm excited to be here and contribute, share my expertise and also learn from all of you!
Yay! Super great to have you!
me too
Thanks
If this is your welcome post, I can't wait to dive in to your actual post 😁
Hi Gergely! You sound very straight forward and simple. The notion of asking questions is really what I too like the most and do the most but as you said, will do a before hand research. I love to read the book since I'm pretty sure, this is going to help me a lot since I just started to climb the ladder in tech industry!!
Looking forward to explore the marvelous world of programming with your help.
Really excited to have your guidance.
Welcome to DEV Devanshu!
Thanks for sharing
Yeah!! That would be very helpful :D :D
How do I put emos by the way :p...
Hello bro can I get project to do work from home.
Warm welcome to you. Hope you have nice time with us.. Thanks for joining us.
Very impressive, thanks for sharing Gergely.
Are you still in Uber?
Hi
Hi everyone! My name's Gabi and I'm a software engineer at Etsy. I'm passionate about code, fostering kittens and making technology a more inclusive space for marginalized folks.
I struggle with anxiety around putting myself out there on the internet for criticism but I went to a talk by @jessleenyc at the Write/Speak/Code conference last year and dev.to seems like the perfect place to start sharing my knowledge with (hopefully kind) strangers.
I figure that if you're not pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone, you're not growing, so this is me, pushing myself outside of my comfort zone. 😅 I'm excited to start contributing to the excellent content here and getting to know this community better!
Welcome! You have the support of the whole moderator community supporting you.
Thank you, Ben! Happy to be here. ❤️
Hi Gabi, nice to find you here. Looking forward to your posts!
Hi Vanessa! What a small world / funny coincidence we both signed up within a couple days of each other. Looking forward to your posts as well!
Great to have you here 😊
Oooo I feel that anxiety! I thought to do the same thing today! Welcome!
I think it's super natural to feel anxious around putting yourself out there technically, but this seems like a place where people won't "ummm actually...". 🙏 Welcome to you too!
Yah, for sure! I'm super hopeful it won't be like that. :)
Welcome to DEV Gabi! I've found this to be one of the best places for devs to hang out online, so you've picked a good place :) What are you most interested in talking about?
Hi Chris! I'm currently working on a post about Elasticsearch and have some other topics in mind involving React/Redux, accessibility, side projects & productivity. Thanks for the welcome! :)
Awesome! Those all sound like things I'd be interesting in - can't wait to read them :)
Welcome Gabi! Looking forward to reading your content!
Welcome! I struggle with anxiety too, but with demonstrating what I know. A little of impostor syndrome.
I think imposter syndrome is tough to avoid when it's an uphill battle to prove that you're as capable as someone who fits the 'traditional' profile of a software engineer. If you ever want to chat about it, I have my open hours on my Linkedin profile :)
Welcome to DEV Gabi! 👋
Welcome, Gabi! 🎉
Looking forward to seeing what you have to share 🙂
Thanks, Andrew! ❤️
Hi everyone! I'm an AI volcanologist (🌋, rather than 🖖). A condition of my funding is communicating my research, and I'd rather do it in a friendly forum than shout out into the abyss of an obscure web-blog.
I've spent some time as a data scientist and back-end architect, so I'm also here to keep my skills fresh! I'm looking to keep a steady flow of articles out over the next year, with a 52-week blog challenge - 52 weekly blogs or articles on data analysis, writing good code in a scientific environment and computational research the natural sciences!
That's super awesome. Definitely interested to read all your blogs. My first career was as a biologist and I now work as a web dev, but have vague long-term goals about figuring out how to combine the two.
Wow! What a career change! I believe there will be a lot of job opportunities for people who can transit between the natural and computer sciences very soon.
Best of luck! :)
wow! volcanologist! that's amazing :o
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hello
Hi Dev Community!
I am a self-taught Web Developer with a Bachelors in Industrial Engineering that decided to switch careers from the manufacturing industry to web development. Interesting enough, one of my first projects was to develop a web-based platform to automate administrative processes on the manufacturing industry. This web development /programmer approach suits me better 😆.
I run ctrl-y blog where I write about learning to program and changing careers.
Learning to program the web on my own has been fun, challenging, and exciting. Having a community to learn from makes it even better!
Hi Yari, it's just awesome your courage to get out of the box of your graduation and learn new things by your self! There isn't many people that can/want do this. So congratulations for your attitude, and welcome! 😁
hi hi
Hi there, glad to have you there! I've switched to Web Development just like you did but I was a former accountant. Thanks for sharing your blog with us!
Self-taught ftw! Welcome!
Hi Yari! Thank you for posting. I will definitely be following your blog :) I just started learning to code and changing careers.
Hi all, hi Gergely Orosz,
what brought me here was the Indie Hackers podcast with Ben Halpern I think, really inspiring (just as the Interview with Evan You :-))
I'm working on an Open Source temporal NoSQL document storage system called SirixDB written in Java (and a module in Kotlin) in my spare time. In my day to day job I'm also working as a backend Software Engineer. Besides I'm dancing a lot -- swing dances, mainly Lindy Hop and travel to festivals in Europe often times during my holidays :-)
SirixDB (sirix.io or github.com/sirixdb/sirix) is all about efficient versioning of your data. That is on the one hand it reduces the storage cost of storing a new revision during each transaction-commit while balancing read- and write-performance through a novel sliding snapshot algorithm and dynamic page compression. On the other hand Sirix supports easy query capabilities for instance to open a specific revision by a timestamp or several revisions by a given timespan, to navigate to future or past versions of nodes in the tree-structure and so on. It basically never overwrites data and is heavily inspired by ZFS and Git and borrows some ideas and puts these to test on the sub-file level.
In stark contrast to other approaches SirixDB combines copy-on-write semantics on a per revision and per page-level versioning. It does not require a write-ahead-log for consistency.
It all started around 2006 as a university / Ph.D. project of Marc Kramis and I worked on the project since 2007 and already did my Bachelor's Thesis, Master's Thesis as well as several HiWi-Jobs on topics regarding the project and I'm still more eager than ever to put forth the idea of a versioned, analytics plattform to perform analytical tasks based on current as well as the history of the data.
Hello, my name is Ted.
I have just started learning computer programming as a freshman at Tulsa Community College. I am starting with Python. I am handicapped, so I'm not as fast at typing as someone who can use both hands, but I am not going to let that stop me from learning how to code. Some of the questions I'm going to ask may sound simple to an experienced person, but at this point, I'm going to need all the help I can get.
Hey Ted. Having spent some time being one-handed, and knowing a few devers, have some insight. Maybe you've already figured it out, maybe not...
Laptops and their trackpads are way more efficient than a keyboard and mouse. IDEs and their "macros" can help you a lot. Most of the new-breed editors (Atom, VSCode, et al) have good support for hot-keys and language-specific stuff, on top of their contextual menus.
I think you'll find out that coding is as much about thinking as it is typing. You'll optimize the time between the two, as well as figuring out how to context-switch.
Invest as much time in learning to test your code as learning the language. I know for me, I was prone to more syntax (read spelling) issues when I was traveling the whole keyboard with one hand.
I didn't have much luck with speech-to-text tooling, but this was a while back for me. I know some developers who use it pretty well now. I don't know the toolchain but they've figured out how to wire up macros and hot-keys to voice actions.
Good luck to ya!
Hi Ted!👋 Welcome to the community. It's awesome to have you here.
Welcome! DEV is great for getting help :) Good to have you
Welcome to party! Glad to see you here! And never be afraid of asking what you don't know yet. We all have been there.
I'm willing to help if you want on anything :)
Hello,
I'm having trouble with the same type of question I ask for help last week. The instructor isn't any help, and I hope you can help me figure this out. After you read the question they expect us to figure out the solution to the code. There are no examples that help to solve this question, and I have no idea where to start.
Write a single statement that assigns avg_sales with the average of num_sales1, num_sales2, and num_sales3.
Sample output with inputs: 3 4 8
Average sales: 5.00
When you have a minute can you help me figure this out, please?
Thank you,
Theodore Rahm
Hi, everyone. I am a self-taught front-end developer that has a Bachelor's in Elementary Education. Looking to switch career paths and currently applying for developer jobs. I currently know how to code in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and now starting to learn back-end skills. I am happy to help where I can!
Welcome to the party! Nice to know that you are a brave person looking for great challenges.
I'll be glad to support you on anything I can :)
Pleasure to seen such a great set of skills. Looking forward to learn from you :)
Hello Guys...
I'm called Bless Darah, a UI Designer and Frontend Developer at Y'G Inc Cameroon.
I love being around people who can teach and mentor me to be the best in what I do. The articles here on DEV are just so super awesome that I would love to learn how to write like the distinguished authors of such articles.
I want my voice to be heard (not with the wrong knowledge of course, but with distilled and well filtered content that will come from a community like this one) as every man has a story to tell. I'm certain that my successes, mistakes and failures can help to be an eye-opener to many.
I'm therefore more than excited to see how my own contribution can help inspire the entire coding community.
Cheers!
Welcome to DEV! The best way to learn how to write well is to practice :) and this is a great community to do that on - I look forward to your articles!
Thank you very much Chris.
I'm gonna do my best
Hello Folks!!
I'm a Computer Science undergraduate at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. I have worked with CERN-HSF as a GSoC Student and Amazon as an SDE Intern in past and will be joining Amazon as SDE next year.
I was occasionally lurking here from a long time but today I finally decided to have an account to involve more and contribute and I can't be more excited to be here and learn as much as I can from the wonderful people present here.
Great to have you Aman! Nice job getting into Amazon as an SDE :)
Thank You, Chris. It's just the start of a long journey.
Hi everyone! Super excited to be here. I'm @tindall@cybre.space (though I can't put that in my profile, apparently, because cybre.space isn't allowed?) and NoraCodes on GitHub and pretty much everywhere else. My website is nora.codes.
I write a ton of Rust and Python, plus some Go and Lua (my original language!), and I'm just about to finish up my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Beloit College. If you're in the Midwest and looking for a junior engineer with a good deal of internship experience, hit me up!
Hi Nora! Welcome!
Thanks!
Hello guys! I am a beginner still studying and have not really participated in any development projects yet...still doing some minor demo projects as i learn.stumbled upon this community which caught my attention and I anticipate participating and contributing as i learn from great minds.
Hi all, I've been teaching myself web development for 15 years after I taught myself vba and Access databases (With a lot of help from the web of course).
From simple database driven websites I specialised in html emails for a while and built a PHP MySQL driven html email Newsletter building application for a company I was working for and am now building a custom CRM / Time-sheet system for the company I am now working for, again using PHP and MySQL (and HTML and CSS).
I'm loving expanding on it and adding new features and making people's job easier and more productive.
I've also been developing Wordpress websites for a while.
I love learning and love passing on what I've learnt.
Welcome to DEV Alan! This is a great place to learn and share :) Of all the tech you've used in 15 years - what has been your favorite?
Thanks Chris, I do enjoy working with PHP and have been using PDO and prepared queries for a long time now. I do get a joy out of refractoring and optimising my code especially once I learned to create my own custom functions. I would still rank myself as just entering intermediate skill level though and look forward to improving my PHP coding skills. I am particularly interested in security and am always looking for ways to make my web based applications more secure.
Hi,
I am here to learn more about React, React-Native, Angular, Vue from all of you!
I'm a web developer, storyteller, Amateur football analyst who's addicted to food and reading articles on Medium (I think it is going to change to Dev.io) and playing games on Xbox. I love talking about web development frameworks, libraries, strategies, work hacks that I've learned from my own experience and reading them online.
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I am grateful that you took the time to read it. I'd like to know YOU! Just send me an invitation and connect with me here!
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Welcome! I also switched from medium to DEV, and have been super happy. Good to have you! :)
Yeah, I am already loving it! Thank you!
Hi all, I've been in IT for over 40years, but am still a geek. Right now, developing a IoT cloud platform for remote sensors. Multi-threaded Python script to aggregate data from various sources into a NoSQL MongoDB, then NodeJS/Express API to display in a browser. Working with 3rd-party API from Google, Here and UK MetOffice. Everything runs securely behind nginx in Docker containers on VPS in Paris & Amsterdam. My big (huge) issue is UX as I am just a bodging engineer, more comfortable with a command line. Having just read a few posts, I am really keen to dive in deeper - thanks for all the content!
Welcome to DEV! 40 years - impressive! What's the biggest shift in the industry that you've seen over that time?
So many! I started out designing in pure TTL products like papertape reader/punches and being so excited that we could simplify the design with a single chip - the UART.
The PC didn't arrive until 1981, when a 5MB 5-inch hard drive cost as much as the original IBM PC-XT (about £1200). My first portable was manufactured by Philips and ran CP/M (P2000C).
As a coder, I was modifying the 4096 bytes of assembler that ran 'green screen' text terminals. Every byte was precious. I am staggered by current software bloat, for example, 1.16Gb just by the simple act of 'npm install --save-dev nodemon'.
To actually answer your question, though - the biggest shift has to be the reliance on Google to problem-solve - one could argue that it stifles innovation. People tend not to think an issue through; instead, just search for someone who has done something similar.
😮 ... I mean - I knew node modules could be big but; ha; that seems excessive :)
Interesting point about Google: immediate answers like that didn't exist even 20 years ago!
Neat perspective; thanks :)
I've found that Google can be used for good. :D
Nic, I think your point about "reliance" is spot on. I don't necessarily think it's bad to use "search" as an extension of our memory. However, it is critically important for us problem-solvers to evaluate that memory for various things. Obviously it's easy to search and find a solution - e.g. a library that provides the functionality we need. We just need to keep going and be concerned with it to some level of depth that makes sense.
I personally struggle with the depth problem a bit. I get super-focused on the problem I'm actually trying to solve and don't always due the diligence required to prevent becoming dependent on external sources of functionality that may not be good.
I've been working on "Trust but Verify" - to think a bit more critically about search results (whether at Google or Github). But man isn't StackOverflow a savior more often than not?
Absolutely :) sooo many hours saved by just googling for the answer to some problem I'm having (using configuration issues! soooo annoying!) and finding a great SO answer :)
Hello there!
I am an Android Engineer trying my best everyday. I answer Stack Overflow questions. I'm also very active on the r/androiddev reddit thread. Always try to avoid adding more than one activity to the app. Passionate about Kotlin, Annotation Processor and also Java. I also blog on Android/Kotlin/Java topics.
Trying our best is all any of us can do, right? 😁That's the attitude we should all have. Welcome to DEV Stavro!
Glad I joined.
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