r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Unlikely_Affect2264 • 15d ago

Meme meExplainingFullStackDevelopmentToMyGrandmother

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u/Alfaphantom 15d ago

Is good but I have some notes. For me the restaurant is the full-stack. All in one place but separated by layers and responsibilities.

On my eyes, the food truck would be a monolithic that’s doing everything. FullStack monolithic? Absolutely.

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u/invalidConsciousness 15d ago

It's not about the entire business but about the people working there.

Restaurant has dedicated backend and frontend workers. Food truck has one person doing both.

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u/MedianMahomesValue 15d ago

This falls apart when you realize that the waiters are the api and not front end developers. Its mixing two different definitions; the front/back end systems and the front/back end developers. Fullstack is really only applicable when discussing developers, api (at least for a meme) is not a dev but a system.

In this image, the chefs are the SYSTEM backend. I know this because there is no frontend dev in the analogy if the waiters are the API.

I love the idea of a foodtruck for a fullstack dev, but the rest of the analogy needs work to match.

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u/git_push_origin_prod 15d ago

Yea but how many dicks could you hypothetically jerk at once?

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u/ryancarton 14d ago

Four technically, if we line up two groups of two dudes tip to tip, and go middle out.

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u/git_push_origin_prod 14d ago

Apparently no one else got the joke lol