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el azzouzi hamza
el azzouzi hamza

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🚀 Hey Dev Community! What’s the One Skill That Leveled Up Your Career the Most?

Hey everyone!
I’m Hamza, a full-stack web developer and cybersecurity enthusiast. Recently I’ve been diving deeper into systems programming, Rust, HTTP internals, and DevOps practices — and it made me wonder something important:

👉 What’s the one skill (technical or soft) that genuinely boosted your developer journey the most?

For some people it’s:

  • Learning their first backend framework
  • Mastering Git properly
  • Understanding system design
  • Improving communication in teams
  • Adopting consistent personal workflows
  • Getting serious about debugging
  • Switching to a new language that changed the way they think

For me, the biggest upgrade was understanding networking deeply — protocols, sockets, HTTP, TLS, the whole stack. It made everything else in software development feel clearer.

Now I want to hear from you:

🔥 What was your game-changer skill?

And how did it shape the way you build software today?

Drop your answer below — I’d love to learn from your experiences and connect with you all! 🙌

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