Programmers with network engineering skills

Fri Mar 2 17:13:25 UTC 2012

> In my experience the path of least resistance is to get a junior network
> engineer and ...

agree, where the end goal is to increment the facility's scripting
capable administrators. been there, done that.

disagree, where the end goal is to create a coherent distributed
system with a non-trivial lifecycle, release schedule, documentation,
i18n/l10n capabilities and deliverables, resembling an operating
system product. been there, done that.

where i'm looking at gray is platforms built atop of platforms. for
mpi, pvm and similar (b) is the better choice. for grid computing, i
suspect (a) may answer.

-e