[bogardon]

My personal experience is that I got bored with frontend and pushing pixels, and when I tried to switch into infra work I found my incomplete picture of CS made it hard for me to grasp concepts other seem to take for granted. Maybe you don't have to have a CS degree, but even having a survey knowledge of major CS topics will at least give you more confidence.

[Waterluvian]

I'd love to know what kinds of concepts you struggled with.

I do maybe 30% front end, then a whole bunch of everything else and often wonder what entire categories I'm blind of.

[bogardon]

Just like OS concepts like sockets/files/pipes and how clang/ld/dyld actually works.