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"One thing you realize early on," says Luke Tillman, technical evangelist for Apache Cassandra at DataStax, "is that things are constantly changing."

That's a fact of life for developers and their managers. It's true whether you're working with JavaScript front-end frameworks or databases.

"You almost feel bad for front-end developers," Tillman says. "A front-end framework gets hot for a year or two and then you've got to change."

So first, Tillman says, you've got to accept that change is constant. That's the easy part.

Finding their motivation (Hint: it may be $$$)

"Once you accept that change is constant, the question is not only how do you stay relevant, but also what is your motivation for staying relevant," Tillman says.

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