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izard ([personal profile] izard) wrote2014-05-23 04:08 pm
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Web of mind

These two pictures of web I've just taken near the office.



The post however is not exactly about web. It is about "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

I just sent a spec to a young developer, asking him to implement a simple subsystem in a multi-tier architecture. I wrote: "... so I send you these 3 types of messages, and you [usually asynchronously] send me these 2 types of messages depending on my data and the results of a user input processing".

His reply was: "OK, let's agree on HTTP interface, please install HTTP server on your side."

Me: sorry, we will do it in a simpler way: we have a TCP socket, and exchange [asynchronously] messages formatted in JSON.

Lesson learned: young developers now are web developers.