Chapter 9. Case Studies

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.

In practice there is.”

—Yogi Berra (and Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut)

Out where the rubber meets the road, it doesn’t matter how many programming books you have stacked on your coffee table, or how many buzzwords you know. What matters is your ability to understand a problem, analyze the requirements of the solution, and deploy different technologies to achieve the best (most efficient and cost-effective) result.

Needless to say, this is harder than it sounds.

Developing the skills—technical and otherwise—to do this can take years of hard work, exposure to a ...

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