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11 steps to go from Junior to Senior Developer

Becoming a senior engineer requires mastering not only coding but also collaboration, system design principles, and operational excellence. This involves understanding trade-offs, choosing appropriate technologies, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of systems under real-world constraints.

System DesignAPI Design (REST, gRPC)Databases (SQL, NoSQL)Load Balancing (Envoy, HAProxy)Caching (Redis, Memcached)CAP TheoremMonitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)CI/CDCollaborationIncident Response

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