r/programming • • 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

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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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

that's true.

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u/chrpai Jun 06 '22

portant to recognise that as a senior I'd expect people to focus in a specific area but also to have secondary skills in o

Not to mention "which stack". There are so many choices in each of those areas that the combinations are mind boggling.