http://www.aaronheld.com/post/barcampphilly-was-a-success because work and life have hard deadlines..... Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:13:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.aaronheld.com/post/barcampphilly-was-a-success/comment-page-1#comment-13 Anandhan Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:07:07 +0000 http://www.aaronheld.com/?p=52#comment-13 Yeah it is a lot easier to talk to people who are have actually lived the life of developing and maintaining systems in production. I strongly believe that books and articles on the web can be used as references but nothing beyond that. I am not against improving knowledge by reading books and articles but I think the application of the knowledge is the real key. The authors of most books would not have had the opportunity built a website which can handle 20 million customers or faced hardware constraints when building their systems.Every organization has its unique blend of limitations in terms of infrastructure and talent. A good engineer will always propose the best possible solution to a problem but a successful engineer will go beyond that and deliver by working around those limitations. Yeah it is a lot easier to talk to people who are have actually lived the life of developing and maintaining systems in production. I strongly believe that books and articles on the web can be used as references but nothing beyond that. I am not against improving knowledge by reading books and articles but I think the application of the knowledge is the real key. The authors of most books would not have had the opportunity built a website which can handle 20 million customers or faced hardware constraints when building their systems.Every organization has its unique blend of limitations in terms of infrastructure and talent. A good engineer will always propose the best possible solution to a problem but a successful engineer will go beyond that and deliver by working around those limitations.

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