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Discussion on: I’m sorry, but this “Full Stack” meme makes me really mad/sad

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Truong Hoang Dung

In general, the meme told a sad truth: the more breadth knowledge you know, the less specialized you get.

What does that mean ?

If you're specialized on frontend tech, just focus more on it. It's nearly impossible for a frontend specialist to become a SQL specialist. It's hard, super hard.

So, in my case, my team has "specialists", instead of Full stack devs.

The one who knows well SQL doesn't know anything about Frontend tech, or Backend tech.
The one who knows Frontend tech doesn't know anything about Backend tech.
The one who knows Backend tech doesn't know anything about Frontend tech.

I love that meme, it delivers the meaning in a visual, clean way.

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Cubicle Buddha

Some teams really like working that way. But I’m curious, what does your team do when you have a big deadline and the frontend specialist is out sick. Does the backend specialist jump in? Or do you just miss the deadline?