--- title: "Dive a bit deeper, look a bit wider" url: https://daily.dev/posts/dive-a-bit-deeper-look-a-bit-wider-u2yzxtbwl source_url: https://event-driven.io/en/dive_a_bit_deeper_look_a_bit_wider type: article source: "Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz" published: 2026-06-17T11:26:07.994Z updated: 2026-06-17T11:30:28.405Z tags: ["architecture", "backend"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Dive a bit deeper, look a bit wider **[Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz](https://daily.dev/sources/event-driven-io)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A reflection on the growing superficiality of developer knowledge in an era of information overload. Using real-world examples — a developer replacing Postgres with Redis without adding indexes, misunderstandings of CQRS and Event Sourcing, and ORM N+1 problems — the author argues that developers should strive to understand their tools one level deeper than they currently operate. The post urges going beyond marketing, blog hot-takes, and surface-level tutorials to grasp the fundamentals and conventions of the technologies being used. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [blog dot information dash superhighway dot net](https://daily.dev/posts/blog-dot-information-dash-superhighway-dot-net-j9fn8gg7v) · Lobsters · 15 upvotes · 0 comments - [I Thought Databases Were Just Storage Until I Looked Deeper](https://daily.dev/posts/i-thought-databases-were-just-storage-until-i-looked-deeper-i2rvofiid) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/dive-a-bit-deeper-look-a-bit-wider-u2yzxtbwl)