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Strategies to Deal With Anxiety & Self-Doubt as a Software Engineer
Here are some helpful strategies I learned today from the book “The Making of Manager” on how to deal with anxiety, stress & self-doubt as a software engineer.
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The CAP-Theorem Explained in Simple Terms
The CAP-Theorem is one of those terms that are very badly and vaguely explained on the internet. I always suffered with it until I came across it while reading the book “Designing Data Intensive Applications” by Martin Kleppmann. In this post I will try to explain the idea in simple terms from the way I…
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List of Developer & Tech Conferences in Berlin 2023
I’m maintaining a list of interesting developer & tech conferences that are happening in Berlin in 2023 for which you may wanna visit.
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List of Offsite Ideas for Remote and Distributed Software Teams
This is a list I’m maintaining for remote and distributed software teams who are looking to do and plan an offsite to have fun and increase team bonding.
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The 2 Main Reasons Employees Not Performing Well At Work
I want to share something I learned today from the book “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhou, which is how to diagnose the lack of great work from an employee.
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How to Make a Report Open Up to You?
Something I learned today from the book “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo is how to deal with the situation when you are a new manager of a team and need to have a report open up to you.
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About Me

Hello there 👋. I’m Rakan, a software engineer during the day and a normal person during the night. This blog is a space I use to write about software engineering topics & the tech-scene in Berlin 🇩🇪. Thanks for your visit!