After college, my first big programming project for work was to build a CRUD app from scratch. The most important lesson that I learned from it was that when I’m in an unfamiliar environment, I should prefer to build a minimum viable system by developing things vertically instead of horizontally. That means building just a portion of a layer and then moving to the next layer as quickly as possible. Rather than building out entire layers sequentially. Connecting the pieces of a system can be surp...