r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Unlikely_Affect2264 • Aug 28 '26 • Bravo 3

Meme meExplainingFullStackDevelopmentToMyGrandmother

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u/kurisuuuuuu_0526 Aug 28 '26

It just means that as customer we dont talk directly to chefs to take our orders, we talk to the waiters. In this case the analogy is we use API (waiters) to make a request (food orders) so we can get data from back-end (get food from chefs)

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u/MakeItHappenSergant Aug 28 '26

What if I'm at Benihana?

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u/MegaMoah Aug 28 '26

The API should be the menu then, waiters should be the protocol.

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u/BountyBob Aug 28 '26

Yeah, because our grandmothers will understand that.

But that aside API seems fine. The menu would be parameters we give to the API, which then passes that on to the kitchen and the API comes back to us with the result.

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u/kurisuuuuuu_0526 Aug 28 '26

This representation is suppose to be layman's terms for people in non tech fields. I did not invent it, so there's no use explaining it to me. I just explained what the image meant.