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Engineering Management II: Outcomes and alignment

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The more responsibility you take on, the less your job is about your own output. For engineers who step into management, this can feel unnatural. You're used to solving problems directly, writing code, and moving fast. You may even know the exact way to solve something, and it can feel frustrating to slow down long enough to explain it to someone else. But that's the shift.

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Engineering Management I: Building trust and protecting focus

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Engineering management is one of those roles that looks simple on paper but feels very different once you're in it. At its core, it's about enabling others rather than measuring yourself only by your own output. You're not just writing code or solving problems directly anymore. Instead, you're creating the right environment for your team to do their best work, keeping them aligned, and helping them grow.

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Implementing Commands and Queries in Laravel 12

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CQRS, short for Command Query Responsibility Segregation, is a simple yet powerful way to split the responsibility for writing and reading data in an application. Instead of having a single service or model method that both changes and retrieves data, you give commands the job of making changes and queries the job of fetching information. This split can make large projects much easier to follow, especially as business rules grow and read and write requirements start to differ.

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