I’ve always been full stack and feel like I’d be bored just focusing on one area. am I deluding myself?
I’m thankful I am full stack and can do my stuff across borders. I hate the interfaces, waiting for stuff, or being hindered by dissatisfactory (to me anyway) stuff from them. So I’m glad when I have control over the entire stack - from talking to the customer to running production.
Anything I don’t have control over - most if it doesn’t get done, the rest can be okay or bothersome.
I hate that I don’t see what the admin set up and does on the infrastructure. It makes it harder to assess issues and potential issues and how they could correlate with infrastructure changes and activities…
For me that’s the wrong way around.
I want to be able to fix the issues I see. I hate it when I can’t.
This is why I stopped identifying myself as full-stack and only do front end.
so you put up a front?
can anyone explain to a hobby programmer?
the term normally refers to a developer that can be productive in every layer required for a typical application to work.
They can do the front end design/styling/implementation and are familiar with front end languages and frameworks
They can do the backend API design and are familiar with the typical backend languages and patterns.
They can do the database table design, write and optimize queries.
They can handle the ci/cd scripting that handles building and deploying the application
They can design and write the automation tests and are familiar with the libraries used for that.
And a bunch of other crap like load testing or familiarity with cloud services.
The latest thing added to the list is AI model creation which is a nightmare… but, I can’t say no 🤷♂️
Also, in practice, they’re usually only good at one or two of the things on the list (at best) and hack their way through the rest. As much as people make fun of overspecialization, it happens in every field for a reason.
Eh, not sure if this is true at all. I think the reality is that niche specialized roles are valuable (frontend expert) but you are not “hacking” your way in full stack unless you are a junior or just bad at development.
I don’t consider myself to be hacking anything I do, even things I’m not as strong in (ci cd) I pay full attention to documentation and examples before blinding coding or writing ci scripts
In reality lots of developers are not even good at what they claim to specialize in.
You’ve seen me write SQL haven’t you.
Writing sql is just like writing anything else, but uppercase.
I have seen SQL written by professional Oracle DBAs. What I learned is that I do not want to look at SQL written by professional Oracle DBAs.
