Should Today’s Developers Be More or Less Specialized?

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July 31, 2024

For the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about full-stack developers. In fact, some hiring managers prefer them. However, the growing complexity of software development requires specialized knowledge that generalists might not have. On the other hand, specialists may lack the big picture view full-stack developers have.

Ilia Badeev, head of data science at global travel company Trevolution Group sees a trend toward more specialization. “About 20 – 30 years ago, there wasn’t a distinction between ‘backend’ and ‘frontend’ developers. There were just programmers with a broad set of skills covering the entire software processes,” says Badeev in an email interview. “They could set up operating systems, write server code and even fix HTML. Sometimes they knew how to solder simple hardware and do low-level programming. Nowadays, we see an exciting trend towards specialization: frontend, backend, DevOps, cloud engineers, data engineers, and so-on.”

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