Alex Rembish
Slightly Retarded Senior Python Zombie Evangelist
The way of a backend programmer
a.k.a. Years of blood, sweat and tears
AR, Seznam.cz
2018
Who am I?
Alex Rembish
- Siberian
- Backend developer with 10+ years of experience
- Python enthusiast (6+ years)
- Senior Lead Programmer at
- Currently mostly working on YAML files
Backend programmer?
Backend programmer?
TL;DR who doesn't want to do frontend work
Difficulty Level:
Jr.
Junior goals
- Coding itself
- Gaining experience
- Playing with technologies
- Making spare money
- Prestige
- ...
- PROFIT?
Expectation of a Junior
- Desire to learn
- Listening skills
- Asking questions
- Clean code
- ...
- Getting shit done
Junior problems
Junior vs team problems
- Not asking questions
- Mess in knowledge
- "Reinveting the Wheel" problem
- Technology misuse/abuse
- Dirty code
Team vs juniors problems
- Get shit done!
- Uncontrolled development
- Too busy to explain
- Unclear expectations
- Unclear tasks
- Unclear workflows
- Cold start too cold
- Undocumented environment
- General delegation problems
- ...
Level up!
- Hard skills
- Product knowledge
Difficulty Level:
MID
Four horsemen
of the Apocalypse
- Routine
- Overconfidence
- Loss of interest
- YOLO development
Three Years problem
Developer's burn-out after X years*
* generally three years
Let's flip a coin
Team develops programmers,
but programmers make a team
Technical debt
Level Up! Level Up!
Routine ⇒ Self-development
Overconfidence ⇒ Automation
Loss of Interest ⇒ Proficiency enlargement
YOLO development ⇒ Refactoring and reviews
Difficulty Level:
Señor
Product problems
- Get shit done!
- Uncontrolled development
- Too busy to explain
- Unclear expectations
- Unclear tasks
- Unclear workflows
- Cold start too cold
- Undocumented environment
- General delegation problems
- ...
...and skills
DIY: Get shit done
- Talk about problems
- New features vs Refactoring ratio
- Project bootstrapping
- Basic dev documentation
- Build and deployment automation
- Preproduction environment
- Basic tests
- Legacy code reducing
- ...
- PROFIT
Level Up! Level Up! Level Up!
Routine ⇒ Soft skills growth
Overconfidence ⇒ Bullet-proof environment
Loss of Interest ⇒ Product development
YOLO development ⇒ Easy to support and update
...and get ready for the next level
Fullstack
Lead
DevOps
Product
CTO
Architect
Batman
Scrum master
If you're looking for
a company,
which promotes
self-development,
I know one :)
Q&A
Sincerely yours YAML programmer
Email: alex@rembish.org
Twitter: @rembish
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rembish
Presentation: slides.com/rembish
The way of a backend programmer
By Alex Rembish
The way of a backend programmer
Years of blood, sweat and tears
