6. What the Kernel Can Do for You

As a software professional, you want to create great software quickly. You want to deal flexibly with challenges as they appear. As you advance in your career, you want to take on new, larger challenges, learn new domains and technologies, and apply new practices and methods (see Figure 6-1).

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Figure 6-1. What software professionals do

To do this, you need to always be learning, and the way you and your team works must always be evolving. This learning and evolving must come naturally and should build on what you already know and do.

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