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I am a Python developer that supports Data Scientists, primarily working with the cloud, but also on data ingestion applications, and also some back end work. Flask and Django are back end frameworks. Maybe check out FastAPI too. I’m not sure it takes that long to learn any of those frameworks.
Getting a CRUD app set up on them is relatively simple, the complexity only arises when fulfilling complex business needs. Backend tends to be just knowing the concepts of a REST API, some stuff around web security (authentication/authorization and how to implement), and implementing logic in Python to return the appropriate HTTP response to a request.
What is your motivation to keep the door open? I wouldn’t bother if it’s that uninteresting.
I personally find it rewarding when an application I worked on helps others; that could be automating a process that was very mundane/tedious for someone else, improving the speed/performance of a system to save time/money or increase reliability of our services.
I find actual front end uninteresting. I feel the bugs I encounter are arbitrary, that JavaScript frameworks can be needlessly complex, that it takes a lot of time to get a component to render perfectly in the browser. It tends to just frustrate me, which is why I enjoy back end more.
I'm not long enough into my career that I feel the need to "lock in" to a specific field. Also, economically, web dev is just about 10x more prevalent than Data Science.
How does the income distribution look like in Data Science?
In webdev, at least a few years ago, it was multi-modal with a huge deviation. You had webdevs making $30k/year and webdevs making $200k/year. That, and the lack of interesting challenges, were what eventually chased me out of that subgenre.
I don't live in the US, around the same as any generic developer.
My justification for wanting to know some web dev is not precisely to become a web dev but to be a Data Scientist who also knows some backend Python development, to open a few more doors with what I think should be not much work.
I am far from the next Ian Goodfellow or even the next Dhruv Madeka, so having more doors open won't hurt.
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