On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 18:27 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
Yeah and the problem with that assumption is that the developers also have the knowledge of administration. They don't, but they assume that they do.
Sorry, I Don't remember any developer from the team claiming that "they do "? Infact I think any matured developer knows this as a matter of fact that admins are admins. But some so called developers asume that admins are going to be computer newbees and no technical knowledge.
I think the mail is not clear on what the reader actually understands about development and deployment.
IMHO, developers are over rated. Just because you've put in a great deal of effort into something doesn't mean its correct. That way, I'm sure the teams that get relegated put in a lot of efforts, possibly even more than the Champions. Just because you've put efforts into it does not mean it doesn't suck.
hehe, I am happy that some one used our system on terra bites of data and has come to a conclusion that it "sucks ". Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks Dinesh, Thanks every one. All your points are valid and at any given point of time, there is some tuning work to be done, security flaws to be removed and much more than that.
Administration is a job to be done on-site and if a single user is going to use it on a desktop then I don't know what more would he need than automated installation and configuration?
I want to ask one question to all readers, Will the end-user ever care if we have postgresql or mysql at the back-end unless he is a programmer or a techno person? Postgresql is known to scale up, it has lot of enterprise-ready features and lot of work-arounds which programmers "do know " for what ever weeknesses are there.
Another aspect to this is that once the software goes through a couple or more deployments and gains some benchmarking, we can always change the back-end to what ever we can find.
Even now the system is loosly coupled with the logic and even more loosely coupled with the front end. So changing it is not difficult.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.