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The Myth of the Full Stack Developer

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Re: The Myth of the Full Stack Developer

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Post by jrimbault »

What's your definition of a "Full Stack Developer", I'd like to have the opinions of people here ?

Reading on Wikipedia, it seems, for someone living on Linux, knowing a full LAMP is... trivial. Configuring a debian box is like riding a bicycle. Once you have some good apache confs in your personal library, configuring apache is a breeze. Configuring MySQL (|mariadb) might need some googling if you want to do it right. Writing some php or python is just like writing software. Maybe adding on top of that some iptables and ssl certs.

I'm hoping for some discussion. I know there are more complicated architectures.

Re: The Myth of the Full Stack Developer

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Post by scaryclam »

jrimbault wrote: post #4

What's your definition of a "Full Stack Developer", I'd like to have the opinions of people here ? Reading on Wikipedia, it seems, for someone living on Linux, knowing a full LAMP is... trivial. Configuring a debian box is like riding a bicycle. Once you have some good apache confs in your personal library, configuring apache is a breeze. Configuring MySQL (|mariadb) might need some googling if you want to do it righ…

That's in the article

Re: The Myth of the Full Stack Developer

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Post by purple-again »

This again. Is a doctor in his first year of being a full fledged doctor any less of a doctor than one with 20 years of experience? The more experienced doctor is almost assuredly better and preferable, but both of them are doctors.

This assumption that you have to be a master of the front end and a master of the back end to be a full stack developer is flawed from the start. Have you created economic value with a completed project that you build the front end and back end for (no matter how spaghetti)? Congratulations you are a full stack developer. A shitty one maybe, but one no less.

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purple-again wrote: post #7

This again. Is a doctor in his first year of being a full fledged doctor any less of a doctor than one with 20 years of experience? The more experienced doctor is almost assuredly better and preferable, but both of them are doctors. This assumption that you have to be a master of the front end and a master of the back end to be a full stack developer is flawed from the start. Have you created economic value with a co…

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Re: The Myth of the Full Stack Developer

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Post by tyurok »

"Full stack developer" is just a new word for "programmer". "Programmer" could be a role for any part of the stack, you just have to solve the problem in hand and you're good.

If you're good or not, specialist or generalist, that's another discussion.

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