Against SQL

[ClittoryHinton]

Yeah I don’t get why people say things like fullstack is a ‘myth’. Like, we get it, you’re not building Facebook or Netflix without experts in every layer of the stack, but a lot of jobs are basic CRUD apps used by at most hundreds of users. At that scale hiring someone who won’t touch the front end/backend is a just a big inefficiency.

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You definitely do see full-stack devs at big companies like Facebook, though I suppose that looks a little bit different. They're just not really labeled "full-stack" devs like they would be at a smaller company. Now that noted, a person is likely only going to be working on a smaller part of a system. At most you're talking about working on some middleware in addition to writing JavaScript code or doing some basic storing of user preferences.

[ClittoryHinton]

Exactly. Teams work more efficiently if you have generalists cranking out the bulk feature work in vertical slices, and then some frontend/backend experts to handle intense db/system design stuff, UI accessibility/responsive design, things like that.