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Re:What I've Learned After 13 Years of Web Engineering by konstantintin on Sunday September 01, 2013 @06:52AM (#6309804)
How many fresh CS grads have a strong command of database performance or concurrency?
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Re:What I've Learned After 13 Years of Web Engineering by rdtsc on Sunday September 01, 2013 @09:06PM (#6312941)
Sure as hell more than history, biology, sociology grads and high school students.

We did have to study concurrency and a database course. They were general and were not tied to any particular database, and good thing, because that a while ago. But it was a good theoretical understanding.

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