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FWIW: I didn't produce the content presented here (the outline from Edmond Lau's book). I've just copy-pasted it from somewhere over the Internet, but I cannot remember what exactly the original source is. I was also not able to find the author's name, so I cannot give him/her the proper credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

Questions to ask potential employers

How long do you expect it would take me to deploy my first change? To become productive? To understand the codebase?
What's the longest tenure of a developer at this company?
How long has the top quarter of the developers been here?
What fraction of the developers have been here less than 6 months?
How long does it take to do a complete deployment?
How large are PRs? For a "big" PR, how many lines of code? How long is it open?
How often do you have major outages? What constitutes a major outage for you?
Do you have a defined process for the aftermath of an outage?

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

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