Beyond the Tool
Discover how to master your development tools by understanding their design patterns and histories. Learn to research tool paradigms, explore their evolution, and write up your findings to deepen your expertise beyond surface-level usage.
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Know the design patterns
There’s more to knowing your tools than just knowing what they are. Your tools will stop serving you well when your needs go beyond the scale and speed assumptions they were designed for. In those cases, knowing the design patterns that underlie those tools and being able to look for new tools or make your own will become extremely helpful.
There’s also the why and the who. Who made the paradigms we live in now? Who’s maintaining them today? Why is the API the way it is? Why did it change from past versions? (If you’re feeling ...