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JoelBonetR 🥇 • Edited

I saw this for long time specially on definition meetings, where you or another teammate/s don't know some technology; meaning language, framework, tool and so.

The best thing you can do (I think) is to put your hands on brainlessly and play with that a bit, you'll notice you can manage it better than you expected. Then practice a bit, read some theory about (for what it's meant to, what differences it from another alternatives...) and write an article trying to explain this concepts to another people so you can patch the holes you may keep on that matter.

Oh and, keep reading things here!
You know nothing about CI/CD? Here's a post that covers concepts and practice for you to try at home.

You lack on knowledge or experience on some parts of the entire process? Here's a post that covers a simplified version of almost all the entire process of a real use case so you can put your hands on and try at home.

When you know how to do the stuff in one manner you can also check other ways for reaching the same result so you can compare and take your own conclusions to see which one fits better to your projects at work.

Do you think you learn slowly? Do you waste time on online courses and posts that promises you a full knowledge on few hours only for being frustrated at the end? check this.

The worst thing you can do is to keep crying because you don't know something and still remain wasting your time on things that don't make you grow up (i mean, first learn what you need, then waste your time on netflix, hbo, amazon prime, gaming, going out...) or combine things and being constant and strict with your timings.