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Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve
Chap 6 -- the real engineer
Chap 9 -- architect -- this one seems quite disconnected
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I'm thinking Chapter 6 was more of a sysop/BOFH type person. Most of the ones I've met had a low opinion of programmers, since they were always cleaning disasters. They also worry about everything working. All of the "software engineers" I've met in the operations area are building super complex systems to tell you that something has failed.
There was a little nugget in that chapter about a single program being run on a laptop is critical to the company running. I ran into that a few years ago when I was working on doing a production audit. There was one finance user that had their laptop died or gotten stolen the company would have come to a halt for more than a few days. He was not happy when we took his laptop to make backups of the system and then move it to a server.
Chapter 9 was disconnected, but then I know lots of "white board system/enterprise architects" They have stuff that looks good on the wall, but not really that good in the world. They are often disconnected from the real world company activities.
Nice to see you as an architect updating code.