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by seangrogg 3501 days ago
The term "full stack" often only seems to denote someone with both front- and back-end experience; anything below the server application is often considered the domain of "operations".

I do think it would be nice if the term carried more meaning, but given most companies are running their systems on top IaaS/PaaS offerings from Amazon/Google/Microsoft/etc and tend not to care about things beneath the application layer until they're making more money than sin it's fine as-is for the time being.
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chrisseaton 3501 days ago
> anything below the server application is often considered the domain of "operations"

So people who write operating systems and virtual machines are 'operations'? I don't think that makes sense.

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rubberstamp 3501 days ago
They were talking about front end dev, backend dev, and full stack dev. Those distinctions are only applied in web development. Grandparent post thought full stack meant knowing about deployment and setting up deployment environment too which goes beyond full stack into the realm of operations.

Outside of web development I haven't heard about such distinctions like backend or frontend. There are application developer, system developer etc.

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