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5th November 2017 - Link Blog

On Being A Senior Engineer. Thoughts on characteristics of a mature engineer from John Allspaw back in 2012. So much good thinking in here—my favourite piece of writing on the subject.

Posted 5th November 2017 at 6:16 am

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