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Re:What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’? by jacquesm on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:32AM (#14155742)
> Most of the great first SRE were systems engineers (this is how Amazon used to call SREs) who understood the entire stack from the UI down the the network packet and OS kernel level.

Aka the 'full stack developer' as opposed to the 'full stack developer' that knows both JavaScript, PHP and how to install the base distribution of CentOS.

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Re:What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’? by metaphorm on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:02PM (#14158521)
you're commenting on sloppy use of language. you're right, we do tend to abbreviate and exclude relevant descriptive words. the "full stack developer" that knows both JavasScript and PHP (or whatever), and probably some database stuff, and how to config a HTTP server, and a few other bits of web odds and ends is really a "full stack web application developer". usually there is enough context to know if "web application" has been abbreviated out of the term though.

as for the other kind of "full stack developer", the legendary creature that is equally comfortable doing UI scripting and Linux Kernel hacking...well personally I've never met one. mythical beast in my experience.

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