Yeah, that's why backend devs tend to either be a bit gloomy or a bit grumpy.
Spend all day doing really hard stuff hardly anyone else can understand or see, watch the frontend dev vibe-code a button and take a week-long victory lap in front of a hysterically cheering crowd. ROFL
it's not to say we wouldn't love some praise once in a while for doing something good but i think also back end devs don't tend to be so interested in or used to a lot of attention and probably it would not be good for our work
what turns us on more is seeing hundreds or thousands of users happily using our low latency, high availability things and blissfully unaware of how much work they took to build, happily enjoying the technology we helped put together
Backend improvements are like quality checks:
You only notice when they didn't happen, and you only are bothered by it over the medium term. But then it drives you up the friggin wall and sometimes drains your resources.
That's why everyone skips it. Ship some snazzy features, make some quick cash, tell the users who eventually complain to "Then build your own app, bro."
But we aren't "everyone". We are us, and we don't skip it.
> Yeah, that's why backend devs tend to either be a bit gloomy or a bit grumpy.
Probably. Millions of lines of code that all must work without question. Sifting through specs all day and getting little to no reward XD
