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by idkyall
1000 days ago
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I think one of the biggest growth areas for junior engineers to reach mid-level and senior is recognizing when you're re-inventing the wheel. E.g. If you are given a programming task to do anything related to Excel or the Microsoft Office suite, it's worth googling it first, because some engineer somewhere was probably tasked with doing the same thing a decade ago and has written a blog post or made a GitHub repo for it. |
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At one of my former companies we had a small problem with whitelisting cloudflare IP's that don't typically change super duper often but definitely cannot be assumed to be static. My boss at that time decided the solution was this big initiative he called "whitelist maker" and assigned it to me. I don't remember what implementation details he wanted, but it was some insane rube-goldberg machine to basically pull down this list: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v4 and then put it into some terraform code.
I ended up quietly killing the project during a re-org and used the cloudflare provider, which conveniently provides the forementioned IPv4 list as a data source in 1 line of code. Done, 5 mins work. He had scheduled out an entire quarter and half of a team's resources for it.