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Exercise, learning and sharpening skills
The major portion of the RavenDB core team is co-located in our main office in Israel. That means that we get to do things like work together, throw ideas off one another, etc.
But one of the things that I found stifling in other work places is a primary focus on the current work. I mean, the work is important, but one of the best ways to stagnate is to keep doing the same thing over and over again. Sure, you are doing great and can spin that yarn very well, but there is always that power loom that is going to show up any minute. So we try to do some skill sharpening.
There are a bunch of ways we do that. We try to have a lecture every week (given by one of our devs). The topics so far range from graph theory to distributed gossip algorithms to new frameworks and features that we deal with to the structure of the CPU and memory architecture.
We also have mini debuggatons. I’m not sure if the name fit, but basically, we show a particular problem, split into pairs and try to come up with a root cause and a solution. This post is written while everyone else in the office is busy looking at WinDBG and finding a memory leak issue, in the meantime, I’m posting to the blog and fixing bugs.
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Exactly my observation too! We do lunch and learn every so often or workshops where I try to throw the team into cold water, i.e. a task at hand has to be solved with unfamiliar tools or techniques.
That's very interesting. Seems a good place to work!
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