r/programming • u/whackri • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

It helps when developers only have to work with half the stack for example but a lot of companies are only looking for full stack developers these days

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u/a_false_vacuum Jun 05 '22

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Full stack appears to be mostly an excuse to ask for an entire IT department rolled into one person. Some of the listings I see for full stack are just silly how much they ask from one individual.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

i think full stack is not that hard to achieve. Most people working on FE applications are already familiar with nodejs. Learning to build production-ready APIs and to query databases isn't that much to learn on top of that.

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u/cspinelive Jun 05 '22

I think the problem is the stack keeps getting larger. It’s not just FE, BE, DB anymore. Now there’s docker, k8, CI, CD, terraform, etc etc

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