#Questions for Career Panel - Engineering

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dense ravine
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Hi! Please drop your questions for our Engineering Career Panelists to respond to.
From Top.gg, we have Heather (our Software Engineer) and David (our CTO). As well, we have Meng (Senior Software Engineer) from Twitch, and AJ (Software Engineer) at Pinterest!

swift hamlet
potent stirrup
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What is the biggest issue you have encountered whilst working on the projects you work on?

compact aspen
compact aspen
dense ravine
glad solstice
pseudo crest
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Have you ever freelanced? And if so how did you set your rates?

dawn ember
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have you guys ever been under staffed?

vast hound
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DO YOU EAT FOOD WHAT TYPE OF FOOD DO DEVELOPERS LIKE TO EAT

sick ferry
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What would you suggest for a 16 year old programming enthusiast trying to get into the community?

lone estuary
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What type of engineering questions? There are loads of different kinds? We talking about coding?

tidal geyser
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Do you ever feel undermotivated? If so how do you regain motivation?

solemn birch
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How do you handle security risks? Do you have a security team working together with software development team?

jagged jungle
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What are career panel

glad solstice
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Do u guys anything else besides top.gg? Like game dev ect.

compact aspen
vast hound
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a career panel is like a panel for people with careers

compact aspen
shell zodiac
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How to handle security risks on websites, etc? Do you have a security team working together with software development team?

potent stirrup
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What did your careers start as and what made you want to get into software engineering?

broken arrow
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how much time every day do you spend sitting down

plush notch
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Engineers! What is best in life?

tidal osprey
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Do you see Discord app discovery as an issue for top.gg

fossil oar
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Is Rust worth learning it?

potent stirrup
dawn ember
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is there a high amount of stress in Engineering?

lyric fractal
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When and how did you start developing software/apps/games/etc... ?

slender isle
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Do buttons work?

low stream
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what kind of engineering

plush notch
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How would you implement a trie

tidal osprey
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can a engineer answer my question in the development channel?

vast hound
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Did you need to go to a software boot camp did anyone of your peers go to a trade school and get accepted

trail siren
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What is your biggest life lesson you learned?

silver nimbus
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How can you jumpstart your engineering career?

vast hound
plush notch
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tabs or spaces

swift hamlet
dawn ember
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What is the worst part about Engineering? and how did/do you deal with it?

plush notch
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how often do you force push merges into master?

vast hound
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Do you like the change from Master to Main in github or did it like spark outrage and chaos? Did you still keep master as the name for the main branch?

tidal osprey
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do you have many small codebases or just a few monolithic codebases?

silver nimbus
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When it comes to being an engineer, how would you market your skills?

compact aspen
compact aspen
vast hound
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Do you like AWS?

plush notch
dawn ember
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What was the Worst Engineering job you have gotten before?

vast hound
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Have you ever been forced to use a library that had poor documentation and if so did you like it?

fiery pebble
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Do you ever face imposter syndrome

compact aspen
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What's the tech-stack you mostly work with? Which of the tools are the most useful within your own development team? (Perhaps a link to each tech stack sure2)

silver nimbus
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Ah ty so much, i realised how important networking rlly is

swift hamlet
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if added a ✅ or ☑️ to your question it's been answered (or will be answered soon)

small laurel
dawn ember
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Have you achieved your goals/dreams as a Engineer?

glacial olive
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Reminder that discussion of the career panel should take place in #general

silver nimbus
summer sable
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need i speak for career?

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i cant speaking english :/

swift hamlet
swift hamlet
small laurel
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👌

compact aspen
swift hamlet
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here you go 🙂

compact aspen
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Thank you!

rose pewter
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how do you decide when to drop a project?

plush notch
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When the product owners tell you you've run out of funding

vast hound
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After learning how to multi-thread do you try to implement it or just keep writing code safely

potent stirrup
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What is the most stressful part of your job?

vast hound
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Do you enjoy working from home or working away from home or working on a plane?

potent stirrup
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What do you look for in a project before deciding to jump on board?

oblique zenith
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If you've ever felt impostor Amongus syndrome at your job, has that anxiety gone down as you became more experienced or has it been a moving goalpost that's more related to your mindset than your skills?

vast hound
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Did you ever look at bad code and say its sus?

fickle vector
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My Name is Dibya kanti And I am From India. MY Question is-

I am now in Bcs Computer science.
Sir , Can you please explain how many path is here in this . And which path is best for make carrier and make money.

vast hound
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Do you think the school name is important when applying for a professional career? Have you ever been rejected because the name of the school doesn't hold?

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How do you prevent career burnout? Do you just give up and keep working forever?

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Do you have one of them pop up desks at work, if so did you like standing up while professionally coding?

low arch
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When it comes to designing sites, do you have any tools or anything that helps make that?

vast hound
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What is your opinion on Github CoPilot? Do you think people should stop using it and just code in notepad or vim?

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Have you ever been offered jobs by the department of defense?

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Do you think having a security clearance would help getting into a company more easily? (in the U.S)

tidal osprey
vast hound
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Have you ever coded in a low language or pure spartan-blood C in your stack? (sorry im kind of biased)

tight cobalt
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Is there anything that you guys are enthusiastic about sharing/feel is commonly overlooked, but never get to discuss in events like these?

vast hound
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Have you ever interviewed anyone and wanted to hire them but couldn't because the coding exam portion made them flunk?

latent sorrel
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Are you using SOLID / TDD / hexagonal architecture ?
And / or which other good practices ?

chrome cargo
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I've been interested in both the electrical engineering and computer science parts of computer engineering, but I have a lot more experience when it comes to computer science. Theoretical side of computer science hasn't really interested me but I love making projects in code. Is there any part of the field that might fit my interests or any advice would be nice!

vast hound
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Have you ever made a binary tree and implemented it on your application

dense ravine
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Hi! We probably won't be able to cover all these questions but our panelists @warm trout @heavy moon @lilac obsidian and @fossil elk could probably try to answer some of these via text chat in a bit smiles

broken arrow
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What are your thoughts on Brainf**k (that language made up of like 5 characters)

compact aspen
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thank you

feral bane
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When it comes to designing sites, do you have any tools or anything that helps make that?

broken arrow
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lol they just dipped

fickle vector
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@warm trout @heavy moon @lilac obsidian
Thank you 🙏

bitter steeple
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Thanks Panel

potent stirrup
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Thank you!

broken arrow
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thanks haha

rose pewter
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jfsuck is also a fun one 🙂

warm trout
broken arrow
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"...and paste it into one of the many online interpreters" hc_kekEZ

rose pewter
broken arrow
rose pewter
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i converted window.addEventListener('contextmenu',e=>e.preventDefault(),false);

broken arrow
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o

rose pewter
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it goes on like that jsfk for quite some time lol

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basically stops people from right clicking a webpage to view source 😄

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the obfuscation on the method just made me smile 😄

warm trout
hard pollen
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How do you approach your team about needing a Business Analyst on the team? As an Agile Scrum team, we are meant to run lean and mean as far as documentation goes, but we often find ourselves re-defining previously answered documentation questions.

merry escarp
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I'm currently in my 3rd year of studying Computer Science in college I expect another 5 semesters of studying before I graduate with my Bachelor's. When should I begin looking into internships and what kind of internships should I be on the look for?

summer sable
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What is the biggest challenge in your field of work?

warm trout
torn glacier
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is difficult to host top.gg and moderate discord server?

copper ibex
summer sable
dense ravine
vital talon
vital talon
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Pretty cool!

oblique zenith
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center is deprecated. You shouldn't use it anymore

potent stirrup
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^

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was gonna say

vital talon
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Oh

potent stirrup
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depreciated in html5

vital talon
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Mmhm just like <font> and some other stuff

oblique zenith
# copper ibex I have to stack overflow how to center a div every fucking time, that shit just ...

I wrote in #development but seeing as the event is over I might as well continue here
If you're struggling with centering stuff I think you might be missing the fundamentals of how css + html build on top of each other. I recommend starting by looking at how the box model works https://web.dev/learn/css/box-model/

web.dev
Box Model

Everything displayed by CSS is a box. Understanding how the CSS Box Model works is therefore a core foundation of CSS.

summer sable
oblique zenith
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Everything in a website is nothing more than a rectangle that sits next to and/or inside another rectangle

copper ibex
dense ravine
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we should've had wendy as one of our panelists instead 😎

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words of wisdom

copper ibex
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I'll take a look at the link you sent tho, thanks.

oblique zenith
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I used to think that about my css skills too. I even have screenshots of me talking with a designer friend crying about how bad I am at making things look good. It gets better with practice, you have to make a couple god awful websites and toss it in the bin before ideas about what makes a website look good or bad start to click in your head

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If you're struggling with getting websites to not look awful, a few tips I can give are

  1. Learn how the box model works. HTML elements are nothing more than rectangles that fit inside each other relative to parent elements. Look at the Discord UI you're using right now, they're nothing more than rectangles inside other rectangles
  2. Stop trying to use color. Color is really hard to get right, working in grayscale lets you focus more on layout and not fiddle around with the color picker. It's much easier for a beginner to add color to a finished design than trying to get it right in step 1
  3. Go look at designs you think look nice in sites like https://dribbble.com and try to copy them 1 : 1 if you need practice
  4. Use tools like https://figma.com to create a design you're happy with before jumping into css
slender isle
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O cool

compact aspen
limber blade
lilac obsidian
lilac obsidian
# merry escarp I'm currently in my 3rd year of studying Computer Science in college I expect an...

From the research I did in the past while on the job hunt, applicants on average land a position in software engineering within 6 months of actively applying. For those seeking internships specifically I believe there is a certain time of year companies typically open windows for applications and they normally close after a month of being open. I know the Onramp site partners with a lot of companies seeking interns so that could be a good place to look.

summer sable
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Woah, Heather is here, isn't she Popular? WOAHH

rough star
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So which is the best language?

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I want to join Microsoft

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I'm 14 now

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I looked at some of the job applications and saw it required C#

summer sable
bronze badger
rough star
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What's so funny

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Isn't this the entire point of the channel

warm trout
bronze badger
rough star
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Eh

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So.

bronze badger
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I like the enthusiasm, keep it up!

rough star
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What do you guys think is the best university for CS?

rough star
summer sable
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lol

rough star
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So

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Isn't it good to get all of this figured out now?

honest crystal
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h,mm

formal idol
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Why do you only take people of age above 18+ since people below the age are also ok with those...?

dusk bramble
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If you want good coding culture

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IIIT's are best

rough star
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Cool

dusk bramble
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If you wanna enjoy college life and A decent coding culture go for IIT's

rough star
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Oki

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Thanks

dusk bramble
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Lol a random guy is laughing on his question

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Such weirdos

dense ravine
formal idol
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ik

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but it was after I applied

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ok leave nvm

dense ravine
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We removed all existing staff that was underage, if that's what you're asking about

ebon cloud
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hn

summer sable
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Do you make enough money for a living working on discord and top.gg or working for an actual job would pay you more?

patent jungle
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How much money you guys can make in a month?

nova pumice
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How frequently do bot owners buy #Promoted

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like every day a bot owner buys a promo

weak ravine
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What is the auction starting bid for the top.gg?

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Like for the company

wide arch
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How to find out which area of computer science engineering do i wanna specialise in? theres so many thigns to explore, and i end up wanting to do nothing and everything at the same time.

west arrow
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How to get admission into MIT?

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Considering I am British

dawn rapids
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How do you guys implement updates to the website? Things like christmas themes, halloween themes, some new feature, etc. (What's the process, who initiates it, how does it actually get updated for public, etc.)

true tree
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What are you using in backend and which database are you using

potent stirrup