The awkward middle ground between full-stack and cloud infrastructure

Hey guys,

Lately, I’ve been trying to bridge the gap between my day-to-day work as a full-stack MERN dev and the infrastructure side of things as an associate cloud engineer.

Honestly, the deeper I go down this rabbit hole, the more I realize how weirdly blurred the lines have gotten.

It feels like full-stack devs are now expected to be mini-DevOps engineers who just casually containerize everything with Docker, write GitHub Actions CI/CD YAML files from scratch, and debug K8s cluster networking on a Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, cloud teams are playing a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, trying to figure out how to handle application secrets without losing their minds when a dev accidentally hardcodes an .env variable.

I’m really curious to see how other teams are splitting the bill on this in the real world.