The Rise and Fall of the Rails Contract Labor Market
posted by pete on June 19th, 2007
Dan Grigsby has posted the result of his ongoing observations about the long term employment/adoption trends seen in the Rails world:
My hypothesis is that the rate for undifferentiated Rails labor probably peaked six to nine months ago – marking the entrance to the third phase – and has been on a downward slide since then.
Read the article here and if you like it, feel free to vote it up on Reddit:
Dan says some really nice things about us, but to be up front, that’s not why you’re reading this here.
June 19th, 2007 at 08:21 PM
I don’t buy the four phase thing. Phases 1 and 2 are business cycle (Demand) driven. 3 & 4 are Supply (of developers) driven. So, yes 3 & 4 will drive down prices but the next business phase will drive up prices, and force out developers with insufficient business accumen. After 1 & 2 (Social networks) will or at least should be large enterprise scale applications such as online banking, or merchant inventory systems. Those cannot turned into a high level code by juniors.