I think it depends on the context, and that context has shifted a lot over the past ten years. I can deploy an app to Heroku that scales tremendously well (if e

I think it depends on the context, and that context has shifted a lot over the past ten years. I can deploy an app to Heroku that scales tremendously well (if expensively) and have almost zero knowledge of configuring a web server or the tools it uses. I think it's probably more accurate to define "full stack" as being able to make and launch a web application on your own. Servers and databases are just tremendously easier than they used to be, so the bar has been lowered a lot. Knowing the steps of what happens after typing in "google.com" in your browser is only relevant to people working on projects of massive size, in which there is no need for a "full stack developer" in many cases, or you're doing something completely removed from just a web application.