I’m now a full-stack engineer. Instead of being ok at any layer, I don’t know what I’m doing in the UI, the Service, the Backend, the Database, the Cloud Infrastructure, and the CI/CD.
But, if anything breaks, I almost always can figure out where it broke very quickly. A fix is always unpleasant though.
Management: “We’re only going to hire ‘full stack’ devs from now on.”
Also Management: “Why is this page taking 37 seconds to load?”
I’m now a full-stack engineer. Instead of being ok at any layer, I don’t know what I’m doing in the UI, the Service, the Backend, the Database, the Cloud Infrastructure, and the CI/CD.
But, if anything breaks, I almost always can figure out where it broke very quickly. A fix is always unpleasant though.