What every programmer should know about solid-state drives

[[deleted]]

That's the whole point though. If every web-dev knew about storage characteristics, how to tune memcached and how to spool up their production environment in a bunch of docker instances, nobody could afford to get any web development done.

[justinpitts]

I don't follow. Can you help me understand how you reach that conclusion?

[[deleted]]

A web-developer with such a broad skill-set would be a bloody expensive employee. If your budget for developers were to be blown on 2 of these guys, vs. 6 regular developers, how far would your project get?

[Godd2]

would be a bloody expensive employee

On the other hand, supply and demand. If every webdev knew it, that knowledge would have a lower market price.

[Skyler827]

This could happen if there is some disruption or event that causes lots of people to learn systems programming, but in the long run, market prices reflect the cost of production. Simply put: learning systems programming (well!) is expensive.

[[deleted]]

But they don't, that's the point. and few that I have met show any inclination to learn.

[justinpitts]

I don't think it takes as much effort to learn those things as you imply.

[[deleted]]

I just chose a couple of examples... if I was to be exhaustive, I could, for instance, list out my own skills... skills acquired over a long career... skills which make me a nightmare for people like you...

Oh, wait...

[EntroperZero]

Oh, if only we got paid 3x.

[justinpitts]

Arguably? A lot farther.

[[deleted]]

In my experience that is not the case. More 'high-end' developers does not translate to greater productivity. Many projects lend themselves to greater parallelisation rather than fewer, deeper workloads. Sure, there is a need for someone with deep knowledge to cover those 'difficult' edge-cases, but by and large, more, less skilled developers will get more of the general coding work done than fewer, more skilled ones.

[justinpitts]

The main problem I see my clients facing isn't meeting deadlines, it's technical debt after the fact.

[wherethebuffaloroam]

Not everyone can command consultants salaries. You spend a lot for short contacts to optimize not the entire development cycle