Hello! Wondering what I should learn such as knowing where tokens are stored, S3, etc.

Thanks 😃

Curious about your thougths here 😄

Thanks!

Hello! you guys were very helpful in the getting me up to speeed with Express/node post, thank you so much! Another portion of this is now coding review.

I learned alot about architecture, naming endpoints, error statuses, global error handling, chaining middleware, validation of inputs (using zod, etc), user session validation, proper REST patterns, standard http headers and response codes, unit vs integration testing and when to use what, monitoring in production, scaling the service (ie add cache on GET requests, or run multiple behind a load balancer), different ways to server HTML

My other followup is!! are there any other 'gotchas'/concepts I need to prep for a coding review? such as I think they can pull of a SQL query that is prone to injection and not use paramterized queries:

app.get('/user', (req, res) => {
  const username = req.query.username;

  // 🚨 DANGEROUS: User input is directly interpolated into the SQL string
  const query = `SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '${username}'`;

  db.query(query, (err, results) => {
    res.json(results);
  });
});

Hello! Im in a mostly front-end developer position, but Id like to do more backend. I cant do backend stuff right now in work due to prioritisation for frontend features. I know the basics of backend since I did basic production stuff on backend in my job and built side- projects on it. I am aware of sys design though like API gateways, microservices, kafka, queues, redis, etc.

I would like to know more and jump into a full-stack position as I find it more appealing.

When recruiters ask me what backend tickets I've done, I go with the answer of ''Im frontend leaning, but I have done simple database migrations, modified and added endpoints; I have not 'owned' a iniative - such as building a microservice, building an API gateway, integrating kafka, etc". I think I shoot myself in the foot when I say this?

I also hear that people say just to learn this stuff on your own and 'lie' when asked lol.

Thanks 😄

Hello! Im in a mostly front-end developer position, but Id like to do more backend. I cant do backend stuff right now in work due to prioritisation for frontend features. I know the basics of backend since I did basic production stuff on backend in my job and built side- projects on it. I am aware of sys design though like API gateways, microservices, kafka, queues, redis, etc.

I would like to know more and jump into a full-stack position as I find it more appealing.

When recruiters ask me what backend tickets I've done, I go with the answer of ''Im frontend leaning, but I have done simple database migrations, modified and added endpoints; I have not 'owned' a iniative - such as building a microservice, building an API gateway, integrating kafka, etc". I think I shoot myself in the foot when I say this?

I also hear that people say just to learn this stuff on your own and 'lie' when asked lol.

Thanks 😄

Hello! frontend leaning dev here. I have an itnerveiw to build an API and it will involve SQL.

Wondering what I should prepare, something liek ACID, JOINS, indexing, primary key, foreign key, normalizaiton, anything else? do I need to prepare for any specific ORMs?

thanks 😃

Hi, diving my hands into backend, what core metrics do you guys monitor say in Datadog, Grafana, etc? Like how fast an endpoint is, deadlocks, etc?

I saw a video from a Financial advisor where he says that community, purpose, relationships, control and new experiences are pillars of a happy life. I agree. And I was watching a guy's vlog in his 30s who FIRED but got bored. It made me reflect.

Im trying to plan RE, but currently I think when I achieve FI, Ill not RE.

- I hate corporate for the layoffs, politics, interviews, etc

- My job builds skills that I use to help others through volunteering, it gives me purpose, community, relationships. My corporate job does not give me purpose.

- I have travelled multiple times for a very long time (gives me new experiences), I love it. I dont think I have to RE to do this. I can do it when I quit/sabbathical/layoffs.

- For my hobbies, I play sports (gives me relationships and community). If I RE I think ill end up spending most on video games and watching TV all day, which could be too boring.

- Im too young, I think. If I were to quit corporate, I would maintain the same interests I have but travel more aggressively.

Does anyone else have the same dilemma? How did you plan your RE?

I was so focused on achieving FIRE to RE but then I saw a video from a Financial advisor where he says that community, purpose, relationships, control and new experiences are pillars of a happy life. I agree. And I was watching a guy's vlog in his 30s who FIRED but got bored.

This made me reflect that as much I hate corporate for the layoffs, politics, interviews, etc., I think I will stick with corporate even if I can FIRE:

- What I do at corporate helps the skills that I use to help others in need outside of work, it gives me purpose, community, relationships. My corporate job does not give me purpose though.

- For my hobbies, I play sports (gives me relationships and community), and I think playing video games and watching TV/movies all day could be too boring.

- I have travelled multiple times for a very long time (gives me new experiences), I love it. I dont think I have to wait to quit coproproate completley to travel, I can just do it whenever layoffs happen.

- Im too young, I have too much time left I think. If I were to quit corporate, I would maintain the same interests I have.

Although having FIRE(money gives you control of life) definitely makes the layoffs less stressful.

Hello! doing interviews again, so I wanted to ask here 😄 thanks !

Need to build an express.jss API for an interview, havent touched express.js in a while 😄. Im a frontend leaning dev as well so something that spoon feeds me information are appericiated. Hoping it covers stuff like middleware, etc

My company started to track metrics a while back and now its brought up on my 1:1 where m being compared to the rest of the team (like how fast I close tickets in x period). What were your experiences with these? Is it a form of implicit stack ranking?

Im in North America. Lately been getting mostly of sys design and manually coding stuff you build. I very rarely see LC now. Maybe if you are new gead vs experienced, its a different experience? Im not applyhing to big tech.

Im in North America. Lately been getting mostly of sys design and manually coding stuff you build. I very rarely see LC now. Maybe if you are new gead vs experienced, its a different experience? Im not applyhing to big tech.

Hello! I have a computer science degree and currently a software engineer! I plan to make a switch, wondering how challenging the switch would be. I've read schools can be competitive to get into.

Thanks !

I was assigned to do something with high visibility with higher ups, boss promised a deadline to them and assigned the tasked to me and proposed how to solve it. I followed the advice and solved it but found additional issues with it so Boss proposed another solution, but it causes delay and that had to be communicated with everyone. I solved it. I was told I got a good performance review very recently and now Im on PIP for being slow. I have frequent 1:1s and the majority of the expectations in the PIP was a surprise to me as it was not brought up before. What do you guys think? and what should my next steps be? I think Im basicaly done in the company since I have no political leverage

I was assigned to do something with high visibility with higher ups, boss promised a deadline to them and assigned the tasked to me and proposed how to solve it. I followed the advice and solved it but found additional issues with it so Boss proposed another solution, but it causes delay and that had to be communicated with everyone. I solved it. I was told I got a good performance review very recently and now Im on PIP for being slow. I have frequent 1:1s and the majority of the expectations in the PIP was a surprise to me as it was not brought up before. What do you guys think?

Im not sure on how many full-stack vs specialised roles (eg; FE or BE) exists statistically. But I had an interesting conversation from engineers in interviews with other companies, and even my company...that with AI nowadays that the 'gap' between FE and BE is much narrower, in the sense that it's much easier for a FE dev to jump to BE and vice versa.

Personally, I'm in a specialised role right now and being pushed to be full-stack, and I've found it easier to transition than a few years ago.

I wonder if in a few years the industry will change, specifically looking for full-stack roles, or atleast the majority. Thus, increasing the bar.

My doctor strongly is against using subsuction due to the risk outweights my minor rolling scars (even though she could operate it), Im wondering if C02 helps alot without subscission 😄

Thx!

Im not sure on how many full-stack vs specialised roles (eg; FE or BE) exists statistically. But I had an interesting conversation from engineers in interviews with other companies, and even my company...that with AI nowadays that the 'gap' between FE and BE is much narrower, in the sense that it's much easier for a FE dev to jump to BE and vice versa.

Personally, I'm in a specialised role right now and being pushed to be full-stack, and I've found it easier to transition than a few years ago.

I wonder if in a few years the industry will change, specifically looking for full-stack roles, or atleast the majority. Thus, increasing the bar.