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I'm Burke. Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, creator of the site vscodecandothat.com and co-host of the YouTube show "Five Things". Ask me anything! AMA
I just shoved the entirety of my life's work into the title of this AMA. Maybe they can put it on my tombstone. Minus the "Ask me anything". So what do you want to talk about? VS Code? The not-so-glamorous life of a Developer Advocate? The time I ate Goo Goo Clusters with Jessie Frazelle? Ask me anything!
BURKE HOLLAND

Why I Quit a $500K job at Amazon to Work for Myself - Two weeks ago I left my cushy job at Amazon after 8 years. Despite getting rewarded repeatedly with promotions, compensation, recognition, and praise, I wasn’t motivated enough to do another year.
DANIEL VASSALLO

Introduction to Docker Life Cycle - Maintaining a large software application is not that easy task since it may have lots of dependencies and OS related configurations. What if you can create an OS image which already contains required libraries and configurations that needs to run your application?
DHANUSHKA MADUSHAN

Handling Database Migrations With FlywayDB - Database or Schema Migration is the management of reversible, incremental changes to Relational databases e.g. MySQL or Postgres. Think of it as a version control for your database structure.
AMOS OMONDI

Mutations in GraphQL - This is the third tutorial in the series about GraphQL, in which we are going to learn more about mutations in GraphQL, how they work, and how we can create or modify data in GraphQL.
LEONARDO MALDONADO

Fundamental of How Arrays Work and Build your Own in JavaScript (Part-1) - In this post, we are going to use JavaScript class syntax, so we are going to create Array Class. Even though with JavaScript and many other languages we can do this const array = []; to create an array.
VIJAY SOLANKI

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Vijay Thirugnanam: Which is the coolest site for developer chat? - I love Hashnode because I can poll + I can ask questions unrelated to a topic. My posts in Reddit gets deleted due to one of the reasons: a) Must be a peer reviewed article…
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Ehsan Fazeli: If you were given a chance to change a thing in the hiring process, what would be that change? - As others mentioned it too, stupid quizzes. I applied for a job as a PHP developer and at the interview after a brief talk, interviewers gave a pen and a piece of paper and asked me to write a code to count a specific letter…
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Marco Alka: Is there anyone here who became a developer after 28 or am I too old to become a programmer? - I'm not even 28, yet, but I feel like it's never too late to learn something new. I will be 27 (next week), and I also have many things I want to learn. I want to learn some longboard tricks, some neat sewing techniques, snowboarding, etc.…
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Ramiro Berrelleza: "It always seems impossible, until it's done" - Have you ever felt this in your career as a software developer? Share your story! - I've felt that way pretty much every time I've started a new project. When we started building hipchat server, it looked like it was impossible to be able to ship a SaaS to enterprise customers as a VM, yet we ended building and shipping it…
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