Full Stack

[quackhandle]

My understanding is it means you do front end, middle tier and back end. It does seem to be focused on the Microsoft sphere in my experience.

A simpler translation might be a jack of all trades?

The MS BI Full Stack usually implies SSIS/SSRS/SSRS. I have also read a job spec that required Azure Full Stack: PaaS/IaaS/SaaS.

qh

[darmstadt]

Apparently Javascript and Apps: https://www.fullstackacademy.com/

[SueEllen]

It's the one the client was thinking of when they wrote it.

Unfortunately this is the answer.

It is a meaningless term to describe a role where they want someone to do everything, but are too mean to pay for the skills to get two or three people who are very competent in each area.

[pauldee]

It's the one the client was thinking of when they wrote it.

Along with devops, microservices and a whole load of others.

[mudskipper]

Along with devops, microservices and a whole load of others.

Agile

[quackhandle]

Unfortunately this is the answer.

It is a meaningless term to describe a role where they want someone to do everything, but are too mean to pay for the skills to get two or three people who are very competent in each area.

That's a Bingo! They do the same with SQL Server DBA but want Oracle skills as well. Then you find most of the work is Oracle with 10% SQL Server.

qh

[The Castle Cary Fairy]

I've read about microservices & can't work out what the big deal is. They are literally small services operating at a very high degree of granularity

[SueEllen]

I've read about microservices & can't work out what the big deal is. They are literally small services operating at a very high degree of granularity

It's the new fangled thing - ok a wheel reinvention but everything comes in cycles.

[pauldee]

I've read about microservices & can't work out what the big deal is. They are literally small services operating at a very high degree of granularity

Originally it was quite a specific pattern. Small services, highly decoupled, each with it's own independent database or persistence, and communicating with each other only via publish/subscribe message passing. But very few systems described as microservices resemble this.

This was originally the philosophy behind SOA (remember that?) but when that got abused some people took the original philosophy and named it 'microservices'. Then that got butchered too

[chineseJohn]

Current Buzzword

It's the current buzzword, everyone wants a full stack but most don't know what a full stack is, especially the recruiters. They have a hard time knowing what C# is.