Learnings from September

I’m keep meaning to get around to writing about why I think the future of web developers is operations but in lieu of a proper post here’s a list of things I’ve been spending my work life getting to know this month:

I do wonder if it’s just me that’s drawn to knowing how everything in the full web stack works. But personally I can’t just write code if I don’t understand how to deploy it or what it’s running on. Front end types know this all too well. Being a master of CSS, HTML and Javascript simply isn’t enough. You need to understand the browser to get anything done. I’m not sure it’s the same for all backend inclined folk; how many PHP programmers really understand Apache and a few other useful bits of web tech?