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by vsareto 973 days ago
>Instead, many of those functions are performed by software development teams.

And they likely won’t be as good as dedicated SRE teams.

But few businesses care about that right now considering layoffs.

Throwing developers at a problem even if it isn’t in their skill set is an industry trend that won’t go away and be more pronounced during downturns.

Full stack developers are a great example of rolling two roles together without twice the pay.
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davedx 973 days ago
Eh it’s not the same thing. (I’m very full stack with intermittent devops/sre experience).

Full stack means you write code running on back end and front end. 99% of the time the code you write on the FE interfaces with your other code for the BE. It’s pretty coherent and feedback loops are similar.

Devops/SRE on the other hand is very different and I agree we shouldn’t expect software developers be mixing in SRE in their day to day. The skills, tools, mindset, feedback loop, and stress levels are too different.

If you’re not doing simple monoliths then you need a dedicated devops/SRE team.

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vsareto 973 days ago
If you can be good at front and back end and keep up with both of them simultaneously, that's great, but:

- you spend more time to keep up with both of those sectors compared to dedicated front or back end positions

- you context switch more often than dedicated positions

- you spent more time getting good at both of those things

- you removed some amount of communication overhead if there were two positions

You are definitely not being compensated for that extra work and benefit to the business given that full stack salaries are close to front end and back end position salaries.

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jabradoodle 972 days ago
Is it extra work though, it's not like backend engineers sit around not doing anything because they don't have FE work to do.
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namtab00 973 days ago
I vehemently refuse to do frontend...

Have I done it a lot before the SPA era? yes.

Would I be able to do a half decent job today? Probably.

Would that eat into what brainpower I currently muster to fulfill my backend role? I'm convinced of it.

Can I continue to earn a living in the current market? I'm afraid not for long...

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