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Think of a restaurant. You have greeters (CDNs) and hostesses (reverse proxies) to direct customers (users) to their seats.
When they get there there are servers (FrontEnd Devs) who provide the customers a pleasurable experience (UX) as well as eserve them food (data).
In the back you have cooks (BackEnd Devs) doing prep work, dishwashers (SREs) making sure everything is clean and ready, as well as Kitchen Managers (DevOps) to ensure everything in the back is setup to run smoothly.
SPAs operate like a buffet in that they leave more work for the customers to do themselves and put more emphasis on the FrontEnd.
Where do FullStack devs fit in. They're the restaurant managers. They can fit into -- and accel at -- any role b/c they have likely worked in every role at one point or another.
It takes a lot of work to get good enough to be a FullStack dev. So much so that some other types of devs deny that they even exist.
The truth is, the hardest part about becoming a legit FullStack dev is pushing back against your employer so they don't keep you pigeonholed into a very narrow role.
Many devs are perfectly happy to get paid a lot to work a narrowly defined role. Pursuing FullStack is the hard path and the sacrifice in time/effort to get there may not be worth it.
Like every restaurant wants a badass restaurant manager like Gordon Ramsey, companies would really love to have badass FullStack devs on their team.
But! Very few companies will invest the time and resources to raise a dev to that level.
FullStack devs have a lot more freedom to migrate elsewhere if the work conditions are bad and they're very difficult and costly to replace.
FullStack devs have the capability to raise everybody up. But companies don't want to raise devs up to FullStack status.
This is an excellent explanation! I'm thankful to have started off as a full stack developer. It feels great to have a handle on the whole stack and be able to contribute to all layers of a project. I think that the skillset of a full stack developer makes for great CTOs! You have to be able to see the big picture and orchestrate product development across a wide range of specialties.
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Think of a restaurant. You have greeters (CDNs) and hostesses (reverse proxies) to direct customers (users) to their seats.
When they get there there are servers (FrontEnd Devs) who provide the customers a pleasurable experience (UX) as well as eserve them food (data).
In the back you have cooks (BackEnd Devs) doing prep work, dishwashers (SREs) making sure everything is clean and ready, as well as Kitchen Managers (DevOps) to ensure everything in the back is setup to run smoothly.
SPAs operate like a buffet in that they leave more work for the customers to do themselves and put more emphasis on the FrontEnd.
Where do FullStack devs fit in. They're the restaurant managers. They can fit into -- and accel at -- any role b/c they have likely worked in every role at one point or another.
It takes a lot of work to get good enough to be a FullStack dev. So much so that some other types of devs deny that they even exist.
The truth is, the hardest part about becoming a legit FullStack dev is pushing back against your employer so they don't keep you pigeonholed into a very narrow role.
Many devs are perfectly happy to get paid a lot to work a narrowly defined role. Pursuing FullStack is the hard path and the sacrifice in time/effort to get there may not be worth it.
Like every restaurant wants a badass restaurant manager like Gordon Ramsey, companies would really love to have badass FullStack devs on their team.
But! Very few companies will invest the time and resources to raise a dev to that level.
FullStack devs have a lot more freedom to migrate elsewhere if the work conditions are bad and they're very difficult and costly to replace.
FullStack devs have the capability to raise everybody up. But companies don't want to raise devs up to FullStack status.
Thank you for this eye opening comment.
This is an excellent explanation! I'm thankful to have started off as a full stack developer. It feels great to have a handle on the whole stack and be able to contribute to all layers of a project. I think that the skillset of a full stack developer makes for great CTOs! You have to be able to see the big picture and orchestrate product development across a wide range of specialties.