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Back by popular demand, we featured Alexandre Zajac again this week, an Amazon software engineer and the creator of the Hungry Minds newsletter.
👀 Here's a sneak peek:
"In my 4 years at Amazon, I've learned that the best engineers aren't the ones who know every fancy design pattern or the latest framework.
They're the ones who stick to some basic, powerful principles.
These principles aren't rocket science. They're simple, practical rules that anyone can follow. But they do make such a difference!
I remember when I first started at Amazon. I wanted to be so good and impress people so I would overcomplicate everything. I'd write these long, decorated functions thinking I was being clever.
But you know what happened? My code was buggy, hard to understand, and hard to maintain.
Then one day, a senior engineer took me aside. "Alex," he said, "just KISS".
At first, I didn't really understand what they meant, but I later figured out why keeping things simple mattered."
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