How technology is standardized and what it has to do with your career

Technical skills are required to participate in standards organizations, but there are many other things you need to know and can learn through participating in standardization activities. One of these things is that there are hundreds of ways of doing the same thing. When you start getting involved in standardization activities and participating in the discussions, you will see this through learning about how others use the standards.

Once there is a standard defined, you will see that your first solution proposal will probably not run in production the first time, and you will learn the importance of testing and writing tests and test automation to enable standards to be widely adopted and used. You will learn that even though writing code for new features and working on greenfield projects is exciting, there is so much more involved in the evolution of a standard – you will need to maintain existing...