Fortunately, on the web, things never go wrong. Hardware never fails. Traffic never spikes. You never face DDOS attacks or people actively trying to break your

Fortunately, on the web, things never go wrong. Hardware never fails. Traffic never spikes. You never face DDOS attacks or people actively trying to break your security. The network is never unpredictable. It isn’t a complex distributed system consisting of hundreds of interconnected parts. Every potential failure can be anticipated and easily tested against. And every component scales effortlessly as the system scales by orders of magnitude. A lowly web developers could never understand the Herculean feat of writing a Python script to communicate with a motor controller over a serial port.