Fullstack - Speaker Deck

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Full Stacker Being a Full Stack Developer — What does that mean?…

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About myself Currently - cofounder Building the graph of products and builders Iteration on:

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Graph of: products and product builders

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Work history Backend @ Totango Backend @ Outbrain Frontend @ Outbrain Frontend @ Google Frontend @ RawSugar Security @ Microsoft

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Work history Backend @ Totango Backend @ Outbrain Frontend @ Outbrain Frontend @ Google Frontend @ RawSugar Security @ Microsoft And now: Everything @ Yodas

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Work history OSS Backend @ Hector Infra @ FRS Frontend @ Meteor BE/FE @ devdev

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Extra curricular

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The names Full stack developer Generalist Polyglot programmer Jack of all trades Even - devops…

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The names Full stack developer Generalist Polyglot programmer Jack of all trades Even - devops… Did you hear other names?

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The Questions

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The Questions Am I a Full Stack developer?

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The Questions Am I a Full Stack developer? Do I need to be a full stack developer?

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The Questions Am I a Full Stack developer? Do I need to be a full stack developer? What does it take to become one?

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The Other Questions

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The Other Questions Who needs Full Stackers?

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The Other Questions Who needs Full Stackers? why not Domain Experts?

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The Other Questions Who needs Full Stackers? why not Domain Experts? How do I recognize a fullstacker when I see one?

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Questions to YOU What do you want to do when you grow up?

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About ME On average day I deal with: CSS Javascript. In the browser. And on the server Bits and compression in the database Deployment automation Monitoring and alerting From bits in the DB to bits in PNGs

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Things I Like Understanding the whole picture Shipping Shipping Code Shipping Products that work Getting recognized for my work

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Things I Like Understanding the whole picture Shipping Shipping Code Shipping Products that work Getting recognized for my work Hint: That’s why I do Yodas

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Things I Dislike Throwing code at someone else to run it Having heard from someone else that: Hey dude, your code just fucked up Being a small component in a large machine

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Being a Full Stacker

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Being a Full Stacker You understand the whole picture From user entering text in a box To server transacting on a DB To browser rendering back the response *** To some extent of depth ***

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Being a Full Stacker You understand the whole picture From user entering text in a box To server transacting on a DB To browser rendering back the response *** To some extent of depth *** And you love it!

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What happens when you type google.com

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What happens when you type google.com The "g" key is pressed

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What happens when you type google.com The "g" key is pressed The "enter" key bottoms out

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What happens when you type google.com The "g" key is pressed The "enter" key bottoms out Interrupt ﬁres [NOT for USB keyboards]

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What happens when you type google.com The "g" key is pressed The "enter" key bottoms out Interrupt ﬁres [NOT for USB keyboards] (On Windows) A WM_KEYDOWN message is sent to the app

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What happens when you type google.com The "g" key is pressed The "enter" key bottoms out Interrupt ﬁres [NOT for USB keyboards] (On Windows) A WM_KEYDOWN message is sent to the app (On OS X) A KeyDown NSEvent is sent to the app (On GNU/Linux) the Xorg server listens for keycodes Parse URL Is it a URL or a search term? Check HSTS list Convert non-ASCII Unicode characters in hostname DNS lookup ARP process Opening of a socket TLS handshake HTTP protocol

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How to be a fullstacker?

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What does it take?

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How to be a fullstacker? Step 1: Be an expert in one domain

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How to be a fullstacker? Step 1: Be an expert in one domain (DNS)

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How to be a fullstacker? Step 2: Be an expert in one more domain

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How to be a fullstacker? Step 2: Be an expert in one more domain JSF

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How to be a fullstacker? Step 3: Be an expert in yet one more domain

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How to be a fullstacker? Step 3: Be an expert in yet one more domain Prototype.js

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How to be a fullstacker? Step 4: Do a few things casually. Not expert level Different domains Different expertise Step out of your comfort zone

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How to be a fullstacker? Step 5: Proﬁt. You’re now a fullstack motherfucker

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How to be a fullstacker? Tools and techniques Participate in several out of band projects OSS is best Deliberately step out of your comfort zone, again and again. On the job and out of band Read, read, and more read

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Example: My reading list Devops Weekly JavaScript weekly NoSQL weekly Webdesigner depot Web Operations weekly HTML5 weekly Software Lead weekly Hacker Newsletter Github Explore StackShare weekly Meteor forums digest

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I even sum it up publicly Bumpers

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Learn, learn and more learn

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Becoming a Full Stacker You can be expert at one or two ﬁelds. Maybe three. Accept it You cannot be an expert in all Remember the saying: Jack of all trades, master of none. Disclaimer

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Are you a Raccoon or a Koala? Raccoon eats everything yes, even garbage Koala eats only eucalyptus Fullstack is not for everyone

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It is challenging

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Why you might want to become fullstacker? Teams tend to be smaller and smaller Many startups just need generalists to get things done. OTOH if you work for larger companies, you might beneﬁt from specialization.

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Characterizing fullstackers By nature full stackers are seniors They just had to do so many things before

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Characterizing fullstackers They are curious They want to step out of their comfort zone They might have a listening disorder... This might just even be an advantage...

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My personal story Desktop dev @ low-tech (boxes factory) Web dev @ a startup Security @ Microsoft Web frontend @ a startup Web frontend @ google. And backend... Backend @ outbrain. And frontend Infrastructure @ outbrain Then infrastructure. And dev. All sorts. In many companies...

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So I asked myself: What am I? Am I a frontend dev? A backend dev? Both? That tends to get HR and project managers really confused, BTW… My manager even said: You have to decide! The term fullstack didn’t exist yet So what am I?

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What am I? Me: I am both a fronted and a backend. And Infra. Why can’t I be both?

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Back to the questions

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Back to the questions Am I a Full Stack developer?

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Back to the questions Am I a Full Stack developer? Do I need (or want) to be a full stack developer?

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Back to the questions Am I a Full Stack developer? Do I need (or want) to be a full stack developer? What does it take to become one?

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Back to the questions Am I a Full Stack developer? Do I need (or want) to be a full stack developer? What does it take to become one? Can you answer them now?

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Across industry Originally the term meant: Full stack Web dev But now we see: Fullstack Product Manager Fullstack Designer Fullstack Devops Fullstack Marketer Fullstack Motherfucker

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Proportions Is fullstack Web FE-BE? Web FE, BE + ops? Web FE, BE, ops + mobile? Web FE, BE, ops, mobile + design? Web FE, BE, ops, mobile, design + hardware?…

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Proportions https://xkcd.com/435/

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Another way to look at it Basically when people are asking for a fullstack programmer they're looking for the all-singing, all-dancing technical wizard. Or at least someone who won't complain too much when asked to do some work outside their normal comfort zone. http://qr.ae/RHhys9

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Inspiration A true full stack developer must be able to mine silicon from raw ore & also pilot a quadcopter to deliver a taco a mile away / @complex

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Inspiration If you are having fun, enjoy technology and building new things, there is really no expiration date on software engineers. (Jeff Nelson)

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This presentation https://speakerdeck.com/rantav/fullstack-1