My experience has often been that Business mostly cares about what they and their users can directly interact with (The FE)
and don’t really care about spending time and effort on the BE
I’m now a full-stack engineer. Instead of being ok at any layer, I don’t know what I’m doing in the UI, the Service, the Backend, the Database, the Cloud Infrastructure, and the CI/CD.
But, if anything breaks, I almost always can figure out where it broke very quickly. A fix is always unpleasant though.
My experience has often been that Business mostly cares about what they and their users can directly interact with (The FE) and don’t really care about spending time and effort on the BE
The security and permission layers for the API:
Management: “We’re only going to hire ‘full stack’ devs from now on.”
Also Management: “Why is this page taking 37 seconds to load?”
I’m now a full-stack engineer. Instead of being ok at any layer, I don’t know what I’m doing in the UI, the Service, the Backend, the Database, the Cloud Infrastructure, and the CI/CD.
But, if anything breaks, I almost always can figure out where it broke very quickly. A fix is always unpleasant though.