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		drone on March 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Happens to Older Developers? Chiming in here -- some metrics are B.S. metrics (like how much money you saved company, I gloss over these myself), but some are valuable. For example: "designed and developed system Foo which ran in production for X years and processed Y events per second utilizing Z nodes."

yawz on March 19, 2014 [–]

I agree. Some projects have SLAs. It could be beneficial to mention that those were met or expectations were exceeded.

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