Nick Gall wrote: > Ahhh... this brings back fond memories of the midrange server vs. > mainframe server wars, where the mainframers looked down on midrange > systems (Unix, VMS) and scoffed at how untrained/uneducated/incapable > their developers were when it came to building "real" enterprise > systems. It's fun to see the youngsters now walking in the shoes of the > oldsters and denigrating the next generation of > untrained/uneducated/incapable developers, ie web developers. > > The more things change the more they stay the same. There must be > something wrong with me ( psychological neoteny > <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section3a.t-3.html?ex=1323406800&en=3f6e0203d3bf81e6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> > > perhaps?), cause each time around I'm on the side of the new kids on the > block.
It's easy enough to develop applications that get stuff from web servers. What's more difficult is to learn how to, and implement systems that are fault tolerant and capable of scaling from a number of perspectives, beyond how many clients can they service per second. Web development, in and of itself, doesn't teach you how to do this. Only education (and not just formal schooling) and practice can prepare you to do this. It's a small niche for many people. Overall, it requires specific capabilities and tooling to get right. That's what will keep you from having to jump out of the way of the bicyclist, and other vehicles... Gregg Wonderly
