Solana and How It Changed the Way I Think About Software

For the past two weeks I’ve been diving deeper into Solana development as part of the #100DaysOfSolana challenge.

Even though I already had experience in software engineering and blockchain development, I realized very quickly that understanding Solana is not only about learning new tools or SDKs — it’s about changing the way you think about applications, state, and ownership.

What surprised me the most

Coming from a traditional Web2 background, I expected blockchain data to feel similar to working with a distributed database.

But Solana’s account model feels very different once you start interacting with it directly.