Tools, Specialists and Faith
Quote from Michael Nygard – The Future of Software Development”:
"Speaking of languages, many of the problems we face today cannot be solved inside a single language or application. The behavior of a web site today cannot be adequately explained or reasoned about just by examining the application code. Instead, a site picks up attributes of behavior from a multitude of sources: application code, web server configuration, edge caching servers, data grid servers, offline or asynchronous processing, machine learning elements, active network devices (such as application firewalls), and data stores. "Programming" as we would describe it today--coding application behavior in a request handler--defines a diminishing portion of the behavior. We lack tools or languages to express and reason about these distributed, extended, fragmented systems. Consequently, it is difficult to predict the functionality, performance, capacity, scalability, and availability of these systems."
I couldn’t agree more with this…
Tags: I.T Evolution, Michael Nygard