Unexpected Things That Make You a Senior Developer
This post was originally written together with Marit van Dijk and published on foojay.io — a place for friends of OpenJDK.
It’s a Friday, late in the afternoon. To end your work week in a clean way, you decide to get rid of some test data and files from your PC. You hit the enter button to drop a table from your local test database. Within a split second, you realize your error. Your body turns hot and cold at the same time. You double-check, but you already know the truth. You were connected to the production database and just deleted the table with all the customers…