I'm in my first backend role and fighting some major imposter syndrome. My team is constantly shipping huge updates, but I've been stuck on one endpoint for days. Is it normal to feel like you're contributing next to nothing when you first start out, or should I be worried that I'm moving too slow?

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Is it normal? Yes, happens all the time and it is not limited to people early in their career. Ways to get better at backend work:
1) Study other patterns in the code base
2) Pair program with a more experienced engineer
3) Write code that you can unit test. By making code testable you will naturally divide the code into smaller problems
4) Get data flowing before making it perfect
5) Write end to end tests to simulate how your caller will call your endpoint and test interactions with the actual database.

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