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No one is saying CRUD developers are not smart. It sure takes intelligence to build good CRUD processes. Each one is a slice of a business process. Goodness kno
by riazrizvi 8y ago
No one is saying CRUD developers are not smart. It sure takes intelligence to build good CRUD processes. Each one is a slice of a business process. Goodness knows you can spend many lifetimes doing that, and you would accumulate more and more business process know-how. That’s very valuable, and can be very highly rewarded, especially if you are the only person who understands it well. But like I said your software knowledge would quickly plateau, compared to someone who is building new green field applications that are more broad. This is just my perspective after 25 years of doing both types of work and seeing what effect they each have on your technology skills over a ten+ year period.
- dasil003 8y agoMy problem—hinted at in my opening sentence—is that "CRUD app" has become a vague pejorative with no clear definition. All software reads and writes, there is some hand-wavy sense that software becomes interesting when it has massive scale, or in interesting domains, or embedded, or has tight performance constraints, etc. But what is actually "boring CRUD", it ranges between 5-99.9% of all software depending who you ask.