On Dec 3, 2007 3:12 PM, Gregg Wonderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I guess we just have different definitions of "web development". My definition is a LOT broader than how to "get stuff from web servers". It includes web-oriented fault tolerance and scaling across many dimensions. And yes, it takes a lot of education--but an education different from the one that mainframers received or midrangers received. -- Nick
