Choosing a stack for my latest venture... Im only providing an API so no FrontEnd
I'm thinking
C# Back end 💻
@redis for Caching
@supabase for database
Azure for cloud hosting
@auth0 for API auth
@newrelic for Logging and APM
Open to suggestions on any of the stack 🙃
How can you stand out as a software engineer?
Learn the skills that others avoid:
• Learn unit testing.
• Learn CI/CD pipelines.
• Learn automation tools.
• Learn performance tuning.
• Learn security best practices.
• Learn effective branching strategies.
• Learn cloud infrastructure management.
Most fall short here.
What else would you include?
@trikcode Being able to build effective logs and to be able to build dashboards around your code really does go a long way, especially when something unexpectedly breaks at 3am 😬
This month, @awsdevelopers is running a Hackathon for building games - as simple or as complex as you can imagine! 👾
I used to build a lot of games to practice data structures and algorithms, and also just because they're fun 🤩
Here are some ideas 👩🏫
@TommieTechie Yeah just if you have one that you've found works quite well. One exercise I've been asking candidates to do for a backend engineer just to write an API that simulates rolling some dice and a couple of extension tasks. The principal of it is quite simple but it woks quite well :)
@SimonDoesCoding are you asking on specific leetcode problems for example? i'm not sure if you ask candidates to do whiteboard problems, but i'm not very fond of that 😅
This year I started interviewing people for the first time. I've done quite a few now but what do you guys find the hardest part about interviewing someone? 🤔
@florinpop17 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
@Prathkum I took on the lead dev role for my team and we delivered 2 major projects for the company and gained a promotion in the process :) I interviewed my first candidate but they weren't very good 😅
How about you? :)