Career – Apollin Arek Panek https://apollin.com Software engineering, business, data Sun, 28 Aug 2022 17:50:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://apollin.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-LogoApollin1-32x32.png Career – Apollin Arek Panek https://apollin.com 32 32 How do I quit being a workaholic https://apollin.com/how-do-i-quit-being-a-workaholic/ https://apollin.com/how-do-i-quit-being-a-workaholic/#respond Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:35:35 +0000 https://apollin.com/?p=690 Some time ago I realized that I’m a workaholic. I have to make a few things clear: I don’t feel too much pressure and I do enjoy what I’m doing. No bad feeling about it at all. Furthermore, Buffer, my current employer, is literally the most work-life balance-aware company I have ever heard about. We work 4 days a week, entirely remotely, and we focus on being asynchronous so we don’t force others…

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]]> https://apollin.com/how-do-i-quit-being-a-workaholic/feed/ 0 2021 in review and plans for 2022 https://apollin.com/2021-in-review-and-plans-for-2022/ https://apollin.com/2021-in-review-and-plans-for-2022/#respond Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:35:38 +0000 https://apollin.com/?p=667 This article is treated as part of my diary, where I’m trying to reflect on this year as it’s coming to an end and make public statements on plans for the next year – so it motivates me more to accomplish them. After nearly three years of being a DataOps Engineer at Facebook, I decided it was time for me to make a change. When the year started, I didn’t anticipate that move…

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]]> https://apollin.com/2021-in-review-and-plans-for-2022/feed/ 0 Learn fundamentals before learning a technology relying on them https://apollin.com/learn-fundamentals-before-learning-a-technology-relying-on-them/ https://apollin.com/learn-fundamentals-before-learning-a-technology-relying-on-them/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:54:01 +0000 https://apollin.com/?p=611 When you’re starting out in Software Engineering, or IT in general, there’s a big pressure to learn a lot of technologies. Just take a look at the flood of articles in the manner of ‘X Roadmap – from Zero to Hero’. A couple of popular examples: They’re really cool, and all of the courses in the manner of “Learn Docker in X Days” are cool as well, but there is one problem for intermediate…

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