On: Node.js and the new web front-end

[rubiquity]

Back-end (god I hate this term) developers should be concerned with modeling the domain of the problem they are solving. That is all.

[qprofyeh → rubiquity]

I disagree, being a good server side software developer means that you understand fully how your models and APIs will be used and what consuming developers really want from it. You enable them to easily drop your solutions into their stack. Be it an external JSON API or an internal class's API.

Every end has a front and back.

[rubiquity → qprofyeh]

Note that I said "concerned" and not anything about the level of skill this developer has. ;)

I think in the size of applications/companies Zakas is talking about it's probably best if the various layers are like black boxes to one another.

[badman_ting → rubiquity]

Would it be OK if the services they build take one year to respond? They care about other things too.