Delivering code

Another important skill that you should have is delivering code. Understanding the full life cycle of software development will give you superpowers in our industry. This is a very broad set of skills that touches everything from understanding the problem to writing the code to testing and packaging. It will give you skills from delivering and deploying to running and monitoring, not to mention things such as infrastructure as code, zero downtime, cloud deployments, scaling, containers, and CI/CD. You can practice most, if not all, of those skills by participating in open source projects. Here are a few suggestions that would be very helpful to any open source project, and can give you practice and proven real-world experience in delivering code skills.

Code analysis – help with the project quality

We do understand that quality is an overloaded concept and can mean a lot of things to different people. But in terms of improving your skills, any work you...