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Must learn technology for any programmer

  • A functional language. Either Elixir or Clojure
  • A non-SQL database. Bonus points for Riak or Datomic
  • A non-bash shell
  • The UNIX process model: fork/exec
  • Sockets: create a socket and accept on it. Bonus points for netcat
  • A text editor
  • Git. At least git rebase -i
  • Encodings
  • Text-oriented neckbeard text-manipulation language like awk, sed
  • Creating a process which is started at boot time, stopped at shutdown, accepts config reload via SIGHUP and has a restart command
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