The relationship to developers is an interesting one, my experience has been in vendor software shops and IT departments.

In the vendor development shop (mostly application maintenance vs. new product development)...

I think there's another aspect of the "scale well" paradigm that needs to be considered. When we do enter into the next order of magnitude at the server or...

I should have noted...

We work in the context of a very young industry and that fact is oft forgotten by the that many of us have worked in it for decades.

The materials, standards,...

Excellent topic, there are too many variables in the development realm for one realistic answer. IT shops vs. software vendors, small vs. large teams, single vs. multiple products, user...