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Discussion on: What was your first project as a professional developer?

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Amber Wilkie

The first project that comes to mind is implementing an Apple Push Notification service through our Rails API shortly after I started as a full-stack developer. I was trying to do everything alone and just spent hours and hours and hours changing things and reading the response from the server. In the end, I had to get Redis involved. It was mostly a damn nightmare and I should have had someone around to help me through it.

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Nathan Englert

Trial by fire. 😂

Would you say that it was a good learning experience though?

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Amber Wilkie

Sure, but I would encourage dev teams not to leave their juniors lost in the wilderness like that.