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Hitchhikers Guide to Growing Your Tech Skills.

Thirty-plus years of practice condense into a concrete tactic: pick one small, useful piece of a technology, learn it well enough to use it, and iterate. Examples include writing automated unit tests before adopting full TDD, running SQL Server for Linux and APIs inside Docker on a Mac, and using Visual Studio Code to debug Node/Express. Claims: benefit without full expertise, use the command line to see what tools do, start by learning one small piece.

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  3. 27:24Domain Modeling
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