Design Patterns
Just do yourself a favor and read it the way it's intended: As a dictionary.
Design patterns give you a vocabulary to describe design choices you made. They don't give you a set of things that inform design.
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#32Brown nosing.
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#33'The Imposters Handbook' is good for foundational knowledge, it was written for exactly your use case.
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#34State machines. They can be a helpful abstraction for UI or business logic, and they also make regular expressions make a lot more sense.
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#36Learn to use a profiler for your programming language. It will tell you what’s worth optimizing in your programs. I.e. if your program spends only 10% of the time talking to others than that may be the maximum you can optimize by choosing a fancy communication pattern.
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#37SQL
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#38Don't go too overboard with message queues. There's nonzero development and operational overhead incurred when part of your application takes its input in a weird binary format, and when the data in your queue is thrown away after processing, and when you need to think about scaling of workers and concurrency. If you're not working with real "big data" – and, let's be honest, almost nobody is – I would advise using a…
Doing a task queue in an RDBMS is not as simple as some might think, though. https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock...
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#39Develop a project that has two local processes that have to communicate, one local database, and one remote service that the two processes have to communicate with.
Doesn't matter what the project is. Could just be tossing around a string of data that eventually gets dumped into the db and sent to the server.
Research different methods of architecting such a system. Code up a few.
By doing this, you will actually find the answer to the question you posed. And, arguably, have fun doing it.
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#40Makefiles. I always dismissed them as a C compiler thing. Something that could never be useful for Python programming. But nowadays every project I create has a Makefile to bind together all task involved on that project. From bootstrapping the dev environment, running checks/test, starting a devserver, building releases and container images. Makefiles are just such a nice place to put scripts for these common tasks…
One of the worst problems with using windows (in my opinion) is that there’s no native GNU make.