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5 Networking Concepts That Separate Junior Developers From Senior Engineers
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| 5 Networking Concepts That Separate Junior Developers From Senior Engineers | |
| Debug production issues in minutes, not hours | |
| Your production API suddenly stops responding. While your team scrambles, you diagnose a network configuration error and fix it in minutes. | |
| This scenario separates engineers who understand networking fundamentals from those who treat the network as "magic." | |
| After 5 years as a Full Stack Developer building production-grade applications with React.js/Node.js ecosystems, architecting AWS infrastructure for 100,000+ monthly users, and debugging network failures in FinTech and e-commerce environments, I've learned that networking knowledge is what transforms code writers into systems thinkers. | |
| The difference between a junior and senior engineer: Do you understand why things work, or do you just know how to make them work? |