Reply to: Full Stack

[SueEllen]

I usually refer to myself as full stack but a number of agents have started using the term 'polyglot'.

That simply means the ability to use multiple development languages in one environment e.g. a different one for testing to developing in to deploying in or developing different parts of an application/system in different languages as it is quicker.

[quackhandle]

Can get even certified in the "Azure Stack" now.

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[woohoo]

I usually refer to myself as full stack but a number of agents have started using the term 'polyglot'.

that's a good way to filter out agents.

[pauldee]

I usually refer to myself as full stack but a number of agents have started using the term 'polyglot'.

[woohoo]

I'm not sure it's a meaningless term. Or about companies being cheap.

Like a lot of developers that have worked for software houses or in small dev teams you have to be able to do everything.

When I hear full stack, I know they want someone comfortable working on the UI through to the database and all the layers in between.

It's a good prompt for me to say I'm not a full stack dev, because I haven't really worked on Angular, React, Vue etc. but I know html, bootstrap, javascript, jquery really well.

I don't think I've ever used the term when I've been involved in recruiting developers but I'm happy to understand that it's a general term that is a starting point in understanding the clients requirements.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

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[mudskipper]

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

Agile

[pauldee]

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

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

[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.

[darmstadt]

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

[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.

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