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I run a developer experience team at a large company. This something we work on all the time. Keep in mind new devs may struggle with some things we perceive as basic. For example they may spend longer on git or not know the command less. These things take a bit of time. For both code and infrastructure related things - What do you have in place so you’re not always repeating yourself? Is there onboarding documentation? Do you have an architecture diagram written down? Is it discoverable? Are tickets written in a digestible fashion? Are words in the tickets that might be new to them defined somewhere? Are there testing and release checklists with things that are commonly missed and that can’t be automated?

These are all things that take time to implement but pay dividends going forward. Some other companies in this situation may put you in the org chart as something like a “Software Architect”. Until they become more effective your main goal should be getting them collectively more effective. DRY doesn’t apply just to software - it is helpful in the context of documentation as well


If you’re using python the Jina Docarray package supports very similar workflows out of the box. Using an SQLite backend is possible as well in addition to many others. Currently using the SentenceTransformers package as well and you can have your own search engine running in a couple hours.


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