>>The key to domain-expert development is to give the domain developer tools that allow the job to be done without becoming a technical expert. We did that in VFP, and we are in the process of doing that with Lianja. Next year we have road-mapped 8 add-on mobile apps to be developed and deployed in/on Lianja, with the first due to hit sometime in January. In 2016, we will bring the full product to small customers, and in 2017 to the Enterprise. All of this will be done with a 1-pizza development team (including me, and I don't do domain development, just the technical stuff they use), 2 pizza's if you include doc and qa. staff.

So rather than seeing the myriad complexities of different backends as an opportunity for complex versatility, you found a way to commoditize that so you can focus on your customer-facing expertise rather than endless backend tomfoolery? ;-)

Those who don't believe Hank should consider the ACA website. A debacle requiring person-decades at a price of millions of $ by legions of versatile experts... and then a remedy delivered within person-weeks by a small team of open source geeks. The geeks weren't so much "versatile" as able to KISS and sweep away the absurd self-serving complexities.