Basic Things A Senior Software Developer Should Know Well

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• Status: WIP: I started to compose this article as an index of topics for myself to write in the coming years.

The basic things

• Source code version management tools (partially also team collaboration tools)
  • Subversion
  • Git
• Programming basics
  • At lease one known-well programming language and its ecosystem
    • many aspects of the language itself
    • the run-time environment and APIs available
    • library-related processes and tools (using, making and publish)
    • documentation syntax and tools
    • testing framework, task runners and other related tools
    • code conventions (naming, hinting, linting, formatting) and tools
    • other aspects of a complete IDE
  • Good understanding of asynchronous and synchronous concepts and practices
  • Basic data structures
  • Basic algorithms
  • Basic programming modes (?)
    • OOP
    • Functional
    • Reactive programming
    • Event-based programming
    • Observer-based programming
    • ...
  • Basic design patterns
    • Chained operations
    • Singleton
    • Factory
    • Higher Order Functions
    • Function as data
    • ...
  • Basic data retrieving, storage and IO (including console and file IO)
    • The data languages - SQL, LINQ
    • Serialization and Deserialization
  • Basic communication things (including network IO)
    • JSON / XML
    • HTTP / WebSocket
  • Basic multi-tasking models
    • multiple processes
    • multiple threads
    • event loops / coroutines
  • Basic code styles
• The frameworks, libraries and run-time APIs in use in depth
  • e.g., React.js, Web browser APIs (and in many sections such as Web Audio APIs, Web Workers APIs, and so on)
  • e.g., ASP.NET APIs
• IT Operations
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • HTTP Servers
    • Nginx
    • Apache
    • IIS
  • Database
    • MariaDB / MySQL / SQL Server Express
    • MongoDB

What is more?

I would be rather happy if any of my audiences, namely you, can tell me more.