From "Half-Stack" to Full-Value: Owning Your Deployment Pipeline

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the Commit Your Code conference, where I presented my talk, “The Modern Full-Stack: Owning Your Deployment Pipeline.” The core idea was to challenge our definition of what it means to be a “full-stack” developer in today’s world. For too long, we’ve defined full-stack as proficiency in front-end and back-end development. But I’d argue that this leaves a massive gap. If you write code but have no visibility or ownership over how it gets to users, you are not full-stack, you are “half-stack”. ...

October 2, 2025 Â· 7 min