This is a guest post from Jen Weber. Enjoy. Dear new developer, Welcome! I’m so glad you are here. We need your help to build accessible apps, inclusive engineering teams, and incredible products. What I want you to know today is that it is normal to ask many, many questions. There is so much that … Continue reading You will ask many, many questions
Dear new developer, Caching is a common architectural pattern that helps with performance and scalability. Spending some time learning about this will help you build better systems and understand existing architectures. What is a Cache? At the most fundamental level, a cache is a secondary store of a set of values which pulls values from … Continue reading Learn caching
Dear new developer, "Outcomes over output" is one of my favorite letters on this blog. In it, Mark, a guest poster, talks about what business actually values (outcomes) over what developers often focus upon (outputs). Outcomes are things like: more saleshappier customerspublicityless customer churn Outputs, on the other hand, are things like: more featurestest coverageflexible … Continue reading Influencing outcomes through output
This is a guest post from Minh Pham. Enjoy. Dear new developer, I want to start off by saying Congrats and Good job. If you're reading this, it's likely you know how to code - and even if you're still working on getting that first job, that means you have one of the most desirable … Continue reading Create Value for People
Dear new developer, For me, there comes a point at the end of every project where I'm just sick of it. I'm sick of the project. I'm sick of the technology. I'm sick of project management system. I'm sick of the code. Sometimes, I just want to see the whole thing burn. Or better, just … Continue reading Sometimes you just have to ship it
This is a guest blog post, lightly edited, from Josh Doody. Enjoy. Dear new developer, Let's talk about jobs. My first job I was 25, and I wanted to move my career along as quickly as possible. I had my first real job, and had gotten three raises and a promotion in only two and … Continue reading The best career advice I’ve ever gotten
Letters To A New Developer 