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I really don't think this is a productive question or will produce productive answers that aren't tribal and arbitrary. Some folks will blame "the system" or "

I really don't think this is a productive question or will produce productive answers that aren't tribal and arbitrary. Some folks will blame "the system" or "the man", others will claim it's not hard and you just need to RTFM, still others will explain how much harder it was "back in their day", and some folks will question the question (like me). But nobody is going to drop some single piece of information or knowledge that'll "answer" the question; "In 2004 Linus Torvalds declared that all backend systems must contain three additional technologies than the currently mandated two." If only it were that simple. Things are hard until they aren't, complex until they're simple, convoluted until they're straightforward as can be. The line is different for everyone, so nobody knows what your line is, which means nobody's going to answer the question in a way that will satisfy you, and if they do, it'll only be helpful to a few folks (your folks) and possibly actively harmful to others. Maybe if you had a specific question that illuminated where you're coming from, folks could provide better answers...

nwienert 4y ago
Lovely answer, should be cross posted to the frontend thread :)
- SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
  I see your edit, fair enough! I tend to agree with you; stuff that felt impossible for me to understand at one point is now second nature to me, and over time I've learned how to do more. UI and BE, as well as orchestration and infra. AWS used to scared me, and now I maintain a dozen microservices (and I may slightly regret breaking everything up lmao) for my startup in AWS by myself because Terraform is pretty easy to pick up and at this point AWS makes a lot of sense (hello Dunning-Kruger, my oldest colleague). Frontend terrified me because I didn't know how to compose UI cleanly (not just JS), but then I learned React and now feel confident I can build, maintain, and deploy complex frontends because honestly it wasn't that hard to grok. The single strongest piece of advice I've been given, the single idea that gets me through like... 99% of work related strife is this: How you feel now is not permanent and will not last forever. I guess the more poetic way people say this is, "This too shall pass"[0] but I just think of Gandalf so... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass

nwienert 4y ago

Lovely answer, should be cross posted to the frontend thread :)

SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I see your edit, fair enough! I tend to agree with you; stuff that felt impossible for me to understand at one point is now second nature to me, and over time I've learned how to do more. UI and BE, as well as orchestration and infra. AWS used to scared me, and now I maintain a dozen microservices (and I may slightly regret breaking everything up lmao) for my startup in AWS by myself because Terraform is pretty easy to pick up and at this point AWS makes a lot of sense (hello Dunning-Kruger, my oldest colleague). Frontend terrified me because I didn't know how to compose UI cleanly (not just JS), but then I learned React and now feel confident I can build, maintain, and deploy complex frontends because honestly it wasn't that hard to grok. The single strongest piece of advice I've been given, the single idea that gets me through like... 99% of work related strife is this: How you feel now is not permanent and will not last forever. I guess the more poetic way people say this is, "This too shall pass"[0] but I just think of Gandalf so... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass