[150819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Mon Mar 5 19:02:43 2012
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:01:35 -0800
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A83E8A0-E655-4C92-95C9-E0C26DBB218F@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 03/05/2012 03:46 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> However, the bigger problem (from my experience-driven POV) is that it is not so intuitively obvious that developing a network-based product using a team consisting entirely of developers who view the network as an unnecessarily complicated serial port
Here's a thought: if you want network clueful programmers, do what everybody
else does when they need a XXX clueful programmer: hire them fresh and
mold them. Programmers don't come with built in skills for the vast array of
possibilities, so they have to learn it *somewhere*.
Mike, networking is no different than any other specialized area, imo
