Artur S.

What everyone thinks “full-stack” meansvs. what it actually takes in production

(yes, copied from a meme)

Good news: I've shipped every layer in that tall stack.
Bad news for the on-call rotation: I know exactly how each one breaks. (tap a layer)

Vibe coders think full-stack is…

Frontend Frontend.

Backend Backend.

…production reality says otherwise.

Frontend (Web) React · Angular · TypeScript · GraphQL · HTML5/CSS3

Mobile React Native · Swift · Kotlin · Objective-C · Xamarin

Web Crawlers Selenium · Python · Node.js · headless scraping

Blockchain Web3 · Ethereum · Solidity · Metamask · Bitcoin · Stellar · Ripple · decentralized systems · managed transactions

APIs & Backend Logic Node.js · Express · NestJS · Java/Spring · .NET · Python · REST/GraphQL

Database & Storage PostgreSQL · DynamoDB · MongoDB · MySQL · SQL Server

Auth & Permissions Cognito · IAM · OAuth

Hosting & Deployment ECS · CloudFront · API Gateway

Cloud & Compute AWS · GCP · Azure · DigitalOcean · IBM Cloud · Lambda

CI/CD & Version Control GitHub Actions · Bitbucket Pipelines · AWS CDK · Git

Security & RLS VPC · IAM · least-privilege

Rate Limiting API Gateway · CloudFront

Caching & CDN CloudFront · S3 · edge caching

Load Balancing & Scaling ECS · Step Functions · Kubernetes · Docker · Docker Compose

Error Tracking & Logs CloudWatch · Playwright · Jest

Availability & Recovery Multi-AZ · Docker · Infrastructure as Code

The toolbox

What I'm hands-on with day to day.

Languages

TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Python

Frontend

React
Angular
HTML5
CSS3

Backend

Node.js
Express
NestJS
AWS Lambda
REST
Swagger / OpenAPI

Databases

PostgreSQL
DynamoDB
MongoDB

Cloud & DevOps

AWS
Kubernetes
Docker

AWS

Lambda
ECS
CloudFront
S3
RDS
API Gateway
Cognito
VPC
Step Functions
CDK

CI/CD & IaC

AWS CDK
GitHub Actions
Bitbucket Pipelines

Testing

Playwright
Jest
API / E2E

Also shipped in production — used heavily earlier in my career

Picking up a new language or stack has never been the bottleneck. A decade ago that meant a couple of weeks hands-on; today, with AI, it's faster still.

Mobile

React Native
iOS (Swift / Objective-C)
Android (Kotlin)
Xamarin

Backend & APIs

Java (Spring / Hibernate)
C# / .NET
GraphQL
Microservices

Blockchain

Web3
Ethereum
Solidity
Metamask
Bitcoin
Stellar
Ripple
ERC-20
RPC
Decentralized systems

Data

MySQL
SQL Server

Cloud

Azure
GCP
IBM Cloud
DigitalOcean

Automation

Selenium
Document OCR & generation