Busy Developer’s Guide to Polytechnical Engineering
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Polytechnical means fluency across languages, platforms and storage with concrete, actionable steps: learn different paradigms (Haskell for infinite streams, Lua for game scripting, Dart/Flutter for mobile UI), build a small project as an evaluation function (example: a Hearts scoring app) to surface real integration and offline-storage pain, and organize team learning (book clubs, t-shaped team roles). Surprising benchmarks include an Obama campaign stack that handled 4 GB/s, 10,000 req/s on 2,000 nodes with 180 TB and 8.5 billion requests.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:13What is Polytechnical Engineering
- 7:14Why Polytechnical Engineering
- 21:19Haskell
- 35:20Learning New Languages
- 38:23Ontology
- 46:33Team Culture
- 51:18The Devils Advocate
