Friday, August 2, 2019

Can you be a specialist or everyone is a "Jack of all trades"?

A specialist is someone with a focused knowledge in a domain. The level of the knowledge is not mentioned usually...and so nobody can challenge the specialist status....so it's mostly on you to call yourself a specialist.

So if you know something just a bit better than something else, can you say that you are a specialist?

Let's say I am a Java specialist/expert...is this enough for me to design and write a network application...and deploy it? ... Or do I need some knowledge about deployment and network architectures?

...or if I am Spring specialist/expert than is that enough to know how to deploy my microservice to a Docker container? Or should I know how to write Docker files...and use Jenkins to build the image for me....

You can be a specialist in a technology...framework...whatever...but you also need to know tons of other things too...to live in this IT world.

...but if you know so many things...than there is little chance to be specialist/expert in all of them...right?...unless you are Tony Stark.

...than can you look in the mirror ...in the morning...and call yourself a specialist/expert/senior developer? ... than why the titles in the email signature?

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