Andrew Walker
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

Good points Ele.

But it’s not really acknowledging the gap in talent

I agree that there is a skills shortfall in many enterprises, particularly the frontend skills (e.g. HTML5, CSS3, React). So it’s natural that people stick with what they know.

Where people DO have reasonable frontend skills though, our experience is the gap is much smaller than if they’ve come from client/server land.

Having recruited teams for our enterprise clients I would also say that it’s a reasonably easy problem to fix, once management acknowledge the gap.

We’re able to convert a reasonable full stack developer into the server-less world in about 4 weeks.

The first thing that has to migrate to cloud is the engineers

I’m sorry but in a server-less world I just don’t think they have a job. Not for the 90%. A career shift is coming, the bright ones are already making the transition to other roles. On the positive side, legacy admin will be around for 20 years or more and there’s always the 10% leading edge where engineers and admins will always be necessary :)

.. probably isn’t the approach you’re suggesting

I believe in compassion, patience and the path of least resistance. So no, I don’t think a showdown is the best solution, although it’s tempting sometimes when someone’s being particularly obnoxious (rare).

This stuff will all take time and most people will not lose their jobs, history has proven that. They’ll just move onto other things.

One day soon, server-less will seem SO old school. ASI will eventually see to that, hopefully humans still be carbon at that time.

Thanks for your thoughtful comments.

    Andrew Walker

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