I'd thoroughly agree with you in honesty, devs should be able to do it all, slackers! If I had a quid for every time I've thought "Full stack, my arse." and had to take over from someone I wouldn't need to work anymore.
My "full stack" (tho I don't bill as that because I'm still pretty terrible at frontend from scratch) is from the hardware up. I built a server from components, configured everything (OS, web server, database), built a web app, installed GitLab and runner, CI/CD'd blue green deployments, etc in about 12 hours to see if I could once.
I used Bunny.net's CDN for serving video and used their logging API to generate analytics (viewers watching, watch count, watch duration, bounce rate, etc). First media streamed through it successfully without leaking any auth keys and without any stuttering video was this, so epic when it worked! https://youtu.be/JozAmXo2bDE
Oddly enough I've made cakes (en-masse), haha. Crap at cooking (working on it) but I can follow a recipe like nobody's business! Stimulating enough in the moment but not a career choice for me. Just helping out a friend.
FWIW I was advising law firms and other big corps on their GDPR compliance until they got their DTO position set up. Not just making sure my own stuff was compliant (tho, that too).
There's also the boring stuff in there like being able to measure whatever the company wants to measure in Google Analytics, blah blah tag manager, A/B testing, this n that ad campaigns. Monitoring services (Zabbix) is something that's been useful to corps too. Sharding databases when they get too big. Backups. The less fun to brag about day to day stuff. Got a hat that needs a head in it? Chuck it here, I'll figure it out :)
Fair enough though, I'll ramp down the feeling special. I'll have to network more so I can find where these folks are working! I'd love to convince a couple of hat racks into joining me on a project some time, haha. One day. Marketing, frontend dev/des, and accounting are currently my main weak spots!
My "full stack" (tho I don't bill as that because I'm still pretty terrible at frontend from scratch) is from the hardware up. I built a server from components, configured everything (OS, web server, database), built a web app, installed GitLab and runner, CI/CD'd blue green deployments, etc in about 12 hours to see if I could once.
Oh aye I also built a rival to Twitch on a whim one time. I can't prove these things easily but I do still have the proof of concept nginx config knocking around from that one! https://gist.github.com/cohan/7f676d3f561be62d0550785c015f00...
I used Bunny.net's CDN for serving video and used their logging API to generate analytics (viewers watching, watch count, watch duration, bounce rate, etc). First media streamed through it successfully without leaking any auth keys and without any stuttering video was this, so epic when it worked! https://youtu.be/JozAmXo2bDE
Oddly enough I've made cakes (en-masse), haha. Crap at cooking (working on it) but I can follow a recipe like nobody's business! Stimulating enough in the moment but not a career choice for me. Just helping out a friend.
FWIW I was advising law firms and other big corps on their GDPR compliance until they got their DTO position set up. Not just making sure my own stuff was compliant (tho, that too).
There's also the boring stuff in there like being able to measure whatever the company wants to measure in Google Analytics, blah blah tag manager, A/B testing, this n that ad campaigns. Monitoring services (Zabbix) is something that's been useful to corps too. Sharding databases when they get too big. Backups. The less fun to brag about day to day stuff. Got a hat that needs a head in it? Chuck it here, I'll figure it out :)
Fair enough though, I'll ramp down the feeling special. I'll have to network more so I can find where these folks are working! I'd love to convince a couple of hat racks into joining me on a project some time, haha. One day. Marketing, frontend dev/des, and accounting are currently my main weak spots!
I'll have to hire my own manager so I can get more stuff done at some point too, hadn't considered that as an option (ala https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158789)