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"A skilled engineer can get a product comprised of small packages up and running in the same amount of time (and sometimes less time)" Maybe "up and running",
by scott_meade 14y ago
"A skilled engineer can get a product comprised of small packages up and running in the same amount of time (and sometimes less time)"
Maybe "up and running", but then new skilled engineers that follow in enhancing and maintaining get to try to figure how it all works and waste the first x months of their time on board coming up to speed on the proprietary combination of frameworks and interfaces.
- tonecluster 14y agoThis assumes that the software is proprietary - which is something I didn't write in my comment. gEvent, etc, aren't proprietary - they're open-source. There's no reason an engineer who's been around the block at least once wouldn't be familiar with the various OS libraries in various languages (these days, that's probably ruby, python, nodeJS, and maybe java if you're working in big data). There's no way that someone who knows what they're doing would be able to learn Django or Rails implementations quickly but would take "x months" to learn a ruby + zeroMQ + mustache implementation. Months? Someone's sandbagging ;)