Full Stack Perspective Links
This post contains links and references that go along with a short talk I gave at MoDev about the "full stack" development trend.
Several blog posts were influential in the early formation of the term "full stack". Start by reading these to understand where the term originated.
- What is a full stack developer? is the canonical "here are the layers a developer should understand to call herself full stack" post.
- Way back in 2010, Brad Feld mentioned full stack developers as critical to tech startups quickly delivering software.
The following are some other great blog posts for additional perspective.
- The Myth of the Full Stack Developer is an important counterpoint to a lot of the full stack FUD that gets spewed by those who do not understand the topic.
- What is a full-stack web developer after all? provides some further insight into the numerous roles that are out there and the convergence of design and front end development.
I created the following resources, one for O'Reilly and one independently for the Python community. Full Stack Python has now been read by over 100,000 developers so far in 2014.
- My O'Reilly Media post on Driving Demand for Full Stack Developers.
- Full Stack Python. My 2014 project (I pick a major project each year to work on. This follows 2013's Coding Across America).
Web APIs are incredibly important in the full stack trend. If you'd like to read more about APIs and web fundamentals I have a blog post specifically for those resources.