The Urgency to Extend Your Tech Stack is NOW!
Your learning curve influences the probability of your success.
Disclaimer: This post includes thoughts and opinions of my own. The intention is not to hurt or influence an individual's emotions or feelings.
Technology is changing the way we interact and conceive the world around us. Advancements in physical and digital paradigms are evolving while creating unreal technological experiences.
Hardware products with advanced capabilities like AI and IoT are becoming a norm. Software services with exceptional NLP and NLU capabilities with generative capabilities are exploding.
This is the beginning of a new era with extensive solutions and advancements. Although, we have a long way to go. Today's prime focus is to deliver exceptional user experience by solving niche-specific problems.
You might be wondering, all this sounds good, but what does that have to do with learning preferences? , and why do you need to extend your tech stack?
Developing advanced and promising solutions is possible by unifying diverse tech stacks. The implementation can go as planned when you know the internals and how they function. This requires knowledge and a high-level understanding of the language or library.
We are not far from building services to solve problems at a global scale. The community and fellow enthusiasts are bombarding their mindset with unnecessary distractions.
This post aims to highlight the distractions responsible for depleting enthusiast's confidence. Also, what makes you achieve more and succeed in your journey?
Pattern 85% of Engineers and developers follow.
Languages and frameworks are means to shape your vision. They are the pillars on which one can build their solution. But that doesn't mean you follow and stick with that language or library forever.
Every library and language aims at solving a specific problem. The nature of any problem is that it evolves and gets complicated with time.
Remember, One-size-fits-all solutions will become obsolete, no matter how promising.
Most developers get comfortable with a language or framework. The comfort gives rise to an unwillingness to upskill and accept other tools. This is a dangerous trait that impacts their growth.
The primary reason for inadequate growth is attaching oneself to unrealistic expectations.
This belief system makes them think that their knowledge is enough to sustain them in the future. This will isolate them from current advancements and the latest trends. In turn, this will deviate them from the bigger picture.
Breaking the pattern is very important to keep up in the modern era. AI, IoT, Mixed Reality, Robotics, and Cloud solutions are on the verge of booming. Cross-skilling becomes crucial and unavoidable for everyone.
Many factors influence your learning and impact confidence levels. The most common causes are,
✅ Over simplifying or complicating things without attempting to solve the problem.
✅Waiting to implement something until you master it end-to-end.
✅ Over spending time reviewing other's work and getting lost before
putting effort into growing and showcasing yourself.
✅Seeing everything through a magnifying glass and losing confidence.
The list goes on. But these are neither exceptions nor excuses to stop you from succeeding. History proves that the world doesn't wait for anyone. Survival of the fittest always makes it to the next challenge.
How can you make the most out of your learning? In fact, how should you approach your learning?
The 40-70 Rule.
The biggest obstacle to developers' success is the mindset to master everything. This mindset makes them spend a lot of time learning all there is about it. In turn, this holds them back from trying things out and experimenting.
This mindset sets them off many levels behind.
The rule states that when you learn specific information about something. You need to get enough information, which is above 40% and below 70%. This information keeps you well-informed about the tool or problem at hand. Also, you are not in the blind spot where you have no idea what to do with it.
The 40-70 rule offers sound reasoning in decision-making. Developers can start implementing their learning with greater confidence with this rule.
The information is enough to guide you in making informed decisions at pace. By this, you have a greater chance of success than the rest.
Following this simple principle and letting go of the perfection behemoth is the key.
I am not saying perfection is inferior. My message is that you don't need to perfect something to succeed with it. While you are attempting to perfect something, someone else is building better solutions. They are ahead of you in the game and beating you down already.
Future-proof Tech Stack.
Adopting powerful languages and frameworks for guaranteed growth and success is vital. Unlike before, the internet has tools, frameworks, and languages in excess.
Suggesting an efficient tech stack that overpowers the rest might fire up a debate. But they exist. Let's explore languages and frameworks that can deliver advanced solutions at scale.
The table has only a subset of tools and technologies on the internet.
Familiarizing and combining modern tech stack is the key to building advanced solutions.
Final Thoughts.
Limiting yourselves is a setback, especially in the technological race. Relentless efforts and don't give up attitude are necessary to survive and innovate.
Expanding horizons by learning new tools and technologies is the only way forward.
This post is the first release from the Databracket series. The upcoming posts will be on Data Engineering, Data Science, Cloud, Web Technologies, MLOps, and DevOps.