I started at a bootcamp-style program. After getting some experience, moving through junior, to mid, to senior level, there was this inevitable progression to l

I started at a bootcamp-style program. After getting some experience, moving through junior, to mid, to senior level, there was this inevitable progression to learn what’s going on lower in the stack. Over time, there is more opportunity to run into performance problems, memory/ gc issues, deadlocks, null pointers… And when you don’t know what the hell is going on, you can end up going pretty deep down the stack before realizing you’re off course. Obviously, this doesn’t happen to every developer, but it does seem like there are always some devs that want to dig into this stuff. I’m now working on a team that builds foundational things like api templates, common libraries, patterns… It all seems like this long progression as I work towards lower level knowledge.