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The full stack

Miles Gould has written about the
myth of the "Full Stack Developer."

Web programmers and the people who recruit them like to talk about "full-stack developers", meaning:

"someone who understands how
the system works all the way
through, and can fix problems
at any layer".

The trouble is, there are a lot more layers than most people realise! Here's a diagram I sketched out while waiting for my flight to be called:

The point is that the stack is deeper than most people think.

Let's start at the top and work down ...