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Avoid These 5 Mistakes as a Web Developer
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We all make mistakes. It’s the most efficient way to learn, grow, and build experience. You can improve yourself if you reflect and learn from your mistakes.
Most humans don’t reflect on their mistakes. They criticize themselves for making those mistakes. A third person doesn’t need to blame them; they do it themselves.
I’ll list ten mistakes that I’ve seen back-end engineers make throughout their Software Engineering career. Your current position doesn’t matter when it comes to making mistakes. We all make them at any time in our careers.
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Mistake #1
Technical Debt. Over-engineering. Does that ring a bell? Often, developers shift their focus to the technical side rather than understanding how the user will utilize the application. Based on those requirements, they don’t write their code. If back-end engineers used technologies based on the requirements, they would significantly reduce the required effort and cost.
Mostly, beginners fall for this mistake. As they are new in the field, they don’t know what technologies will serve efficiently for the user while reducing the technical burden. The application becomes slow for the end user when more technologies and processing are required.
New people in any field, hobby, or habit tend to overcomplicate the process. However, seniors reduce the effort and cost while using fewer technologies to save development and user time.
Furthermore, Technical Debt indicates non-readable code. Write logic that other engineers can understand is the first rule of development. It means using industry-standard techniques and coding standards, such as this one…
