Re:Young programmers should take up enterprise software
by wccrawford on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @09:08AM
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I'm not convinced that being enterprise-y is necessary. Certainly there are a lot of enterprise-y solutions out there, but I'm not convinced that was the only way to do it... Or even the best way.
It seems to me that the best things have come from making really, really solid small components, and then combining them into larger things. Simply creating a large thing without spending time on the individual pieces of it makes a really shaky system.
When you do things the enterprise way, it almost guarantees there are pieces that get next to zero attention. Bigger things also require more management, and management doesn't actually add value to the product directly.
It seems to me that the best things have come from making really, really solid small components, and then combining them into larger things. Simply creating a large thing without spending time on the individual pieces of it makes a really shaky system.
When you do things the enterprise way, it almost guarantees there are pieces that get next to zero attention. Bigger things also require more management, and management doesn't actually add value to the product directly.