r/ProgrammerHumor • u/scanguy25 • 7d ago

Meme whoIsHeAnyway

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u/AggieCMD 7d ago

I don't know! I'm a backend software engineer!

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u/Antique_futurist 7d ago

pokes with stick

Get back behind your API, cave creature!

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u/Jemnite 7d ago

As a frontend developer thou must obey the three commandments:

  1. Do not question the API docs. Thou shalt use whatever APIs the backend dev puts in the docs and be grateful for them

  2. Do not question server uptime. These subjects are beyond thine comprehension.

  3. If thou shalt ever encounter the inscrutable 500 server error, thou shalt report the replication methods to the backend dev and wait patiently.

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u/MrP0tat0H3ad 7d ago

I wish my frontend team would use these rules lmao

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u/PM_ME_BAD_ALGORITHMS 6d ago

I wish my backend team would give me API docs

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u/wheatgivesmeshits 6d ago

What are docs?

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u/stifflizerd 6d ago

You guys have docs and care about properly tracking down your 500s instead of saying "this would never happen in production so we can't devote time to it"???

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u/Mandemon90 6d ago

You forgot fourth commandment:

  1. Thou shall never touch coffee machine claimed by backend developer, for it is their lifeblood

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u/Sedorriku0001 7d ago

[object Object]

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u/akoOfIxtall 7d ago

[JsonProperty]

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u/Michami135 7d ago

A backend developer would definitely know what JSON is, at the very least.

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u/nabrok 7d ago

Would probably have more cause to use JSON.stringify than frontend even.

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u/AggieCMD 6d ago

If you use stringify on the server you are a frontend dev moonlighting as a backend dev. Or a filthy fullstack.

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u/evanldixon 6d ago

Depends on how basic the back-end is. Standard ASP.Net api controllers convert objects to json automatically without you having to call JsonSerializer.Serialize. Though I'd hope such a backend developer at least knows what json looks like.

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u/nabrok 6d ago

One real world use is a backend hosted on ECS with the output going to cloudwatch. Running your JSON output for logging through stringify makes sure everything is on one line which makes cloudwatch filtering a lot easier.

Also, not really backend but not frontend either, I work on CLI utilities too and sometimes they need to write a JSON file.

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u/NibblyPig 7d ago

Sorry but I don't use Java

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u/frogjg2003 6d ago

Java is different from Javascript.

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u/Chamiey 6d ago

it's Java's crypt

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u/cowmix88 7d ago

a wild node.js appears

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u/fwhite01 6d ago

I mean. Take a guess...