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My two cents: you don't need "full stack developers", but you also don't want "front end developers" and "back end developers". You want people who can play eit
by sanderjd 7y ago
My two cents: you don't need "full stack developers", but you also don't want "front end developers" and "back end developers". You want people who can play either role (and many more) as needed, but with training friction in between.
- ebiester 7y agoI think of it as T-shaped developers who have the attitude that they can learn what is necessary, have a culture of collaboration that reduces the friction of learning, and still allow people the ability to shine in code. I think of my teams as "primarily front end" and "primarily API/back end." Many people would call that "full stack." Some would call a developer like me "full stack" as in my career I've been a backup sysadmin, Db (pl/sql) dev, back end, front end, and a few other things as needed. But at any one time, I can really only be proficient in two of these - everything else decays.