Bogdan is a full stack developer at Haufe-Lexware Romania and evangelizes, what it means to do full stack. This presentation addresses full stack tooling, culture and mindset and how to combine all three.

1. The hitchhiker’s guide to fullstack
by Bogdan Cimpoesu
Fullstack Software Eng. @Haufe.Group

2. Q&A at www.sli.do
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3. Who am I?
- I like technology
- No real preference for a language
- I’m lazy. I like to automate stuff
- Snowboarding & bouldering, not very good
at either
- I thought rapid development sounded cool

4. How do I fullstack?
Is it difficult?
Where to start?
What could help me?
The topic

5. The fear and stigma of fullstack
● I can’t know everything
● I’m expected to do everything
● I can no longer ask for help
● There no longer is a process to build software

6. Nobody knows
everything
Willingness > Knowledge
Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/4dgxp

7. We are still part of a team
… a fullstack team
… with everyone’s support
No cherry-picking tasks. We
discuss instead Source: https://www.jencoinc.com/whats-it-mean-to-be-a-team/

8. There will always be someone that’s better
Why not just ask them when needed?
Fullstack is not a medal of honor nor a badge of sacrifice

9. Everyone owns the process
Nobody throws things over the fence
… because no one has to if they understand what is going on

10. What defines a fullstack engineer?
● Attitude and willingness to adapt
● General knowledge and know-how
● Work in vertical slices
● Overview mindset
NOT an expert in everything but able to tackle anything.

11. A Jack of all trades
And a master of none
Be aware of your limits.
There are still just 25 work
hours in a day.

12. The stack
Development
Testing
Infrastructure
CI/CD
Logging & Monitoring
...

13. AWS CodeStar
CodeCommit
CodeBuild
CodePipelines
CloudFormation
Lambda
API Gateway
Resource Groups
CloudWatch
S3
...

14. A little bit of each
● Perfect is the enemy of done.
● Not the perfect and most complex variant of each
The “perfect stack” usually ends up with 50 people
… each expert in one thing
… for a product that’s far from Live or Finished

15. The start point of a path
● Instant production ready(almost) ecosystem
● Spin it up and then build your product
● 5 minutes for everything versus tackling Ops months down
the line

16. How hard can it be?

17. Template selection
...

18. Project Generation

19. And voila!
● Everything in one place
● Integration with 3rd party
tools
● Live overview of everything
that is going on

20. Live and secure

21. Go big later when it’s needed
Codestar is not the end, it’s just the beginning of a journey
… the sky's the limit

22. Not a silver bullet
● Always evaluate best practices
● Business value > Architecture > Code
● Automotive, aviation, banking, other high risk domains…
● “Their” happy path might not fit your happy path

23. Do it for yourself
● New greenfield project at work? Fullstack
● Personal project? Fullstack
● Portfolio app for your own roadmap? You guessed it …
Fullstack!

24. Rapid development
● Gone are the days of 100man teams
● Time to market is essential
● Good enough doesn’t mean bad product
● Security is more important than ever

25. A Jack of all trades
And a master of none
Is much better than just a
master of one.

26. THANK YOU!

27. Q&A at www.sli.do
code: #B409
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