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This post really resonated with me. The fact is, there used to be less to know to be a "full stack" engineer, and the expectations for what "good front end design" means were much lower 7+ years ago. I sense a widening gap between the realms of front end and back end engineering/design. It used to be you could write a small PHP app and put it on a shared hosting account to serve your small user base and people (stakeholders/users/peers) were mostly happy with that. Now, if you're not "infinitely scalable" plus doing TDD/BDD plus Continuous Integration or even Continuous Delivery right away, that's considered lacking. This does create opportunities for those of us who've been able to grow with the field and truly understand "how computers work", but I imagine it's frustrating for those who are trying to get into the field now or even just trying to broaden their skillset such as from front-end engineering to devops and system engineering/architecture.