Pick Your Slice ๐ฐ, Not Your Stack: Think like a software developer with Ben Parisot
Reframe how you think about software development
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For Part of 2 of the 5-part limited series,๐ง๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต: ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ-๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐, youโll learn all about picking your slice ๐ฐ, your technical slice that is.
Reframe how you think about software development. People focus on their โstackโ a lot, which oftentimes mentally pigeonholes them into a certain type of dev path.
Instead, think of becoming proficient in a โsliceโ โ that is, everything it takes to build, test, and deploy a feature or an app โ of whatever language you prefer.
This makes you think more like a software developer and less like an "XYZ language" developer.
Top takeaways include:
'Tech Stack' is often used bc it's easy to fall on to describe the 'skill' in terms of the technical language used, whereas 'Slice' is about a well-rounded approach that includes tools like Jira, Github, AWS, etc, that are all required to use together to 'ship' features to users
Moving from one 'stack'ex. Ruby to another 'stack' ex. C# is very doable if you want to work at a different company that's using a different tech language. More importantly, understanding the full development cycle tools will prepare you to work in any tech language. (ex. understanding QA tools)
Talk in more general language when talking about tools, ex: testing tools instead of the specific tool, to show experience in the different SDLC tools
Think of everything in tech as 'tools' even the programming language you are using, that way you can switch to new 'tools' when you want or need to
Catch Pt 3 of the series on Fri, Feb 16 at 10 am PST. Register here.
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