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		qprofyeh on Oct 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Node.js and the new web front-end 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 on Oct 7, 2013 [–]

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.

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