The original title is "What a Decade in Software Taught Me About Technology"

Short summary

A full-stack engineer reflects on a decade building systems for banking, government, and marketplaces. The lasting lessons favor fundamentals over frameworks, deep SQL knowledge over frontend trends, boring technology over exciting bets, full-stack thinking over siloed specialization, and reading legacy code as a core employable skill. Distributed team success comes from clear communication, not raw coding ability.

• •Invest in fundamentals (HTTP, databases, modeling) not frameworks
• •Most performance problems are data problems — learn SQL deeply
• •Boring, mature technology outlasts trendy stacks in production

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