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Re:The full stack developer is a myth by bentona on Monday September 07, 2015 @04:47PM (#10182979)
In my experience, "Full-stack" usually means knowledge of the web framework in question (Rails, Django, etc), as well as CSS/JavaScript mastery (Programming, Frameworks, and Front-end in the article, maybe some Databases and Security). I've never seen "Full-stack" refer to DevOps or UI/UX design.
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Re:The full stack developer is a myth by jrbancel on Monday September 07, 2015 @05:32PM (#10183159)
Absolutely. "Stack" in "Full-stack" always seems to refer to a Web stack where the back-end is a database, a framework and maybe a service such as ElasticSearch or Redis.

I might be biased but to me, this is web development, not back-end. Back-end is designing distributed systems, data pipelines, trading systems, databases, etc... It has nothing to do with Web development.

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Re:The full stack developer is a myth by kdamken on Monday September 07, 2015 @04:50PM (#10182994)
Agreed - I always thought it meant you had a solid understanding of both the front and back end stacks, and could work in both comfortably.
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Re:The full stack developer is a myth by windsurfer on Monday September 07, 2015 @04:51PM (#10182995)
I didn't know that. Perhaps I should be more explicit on my resume about Ops and UI/UX experience?
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