I think one thing that the article hints at is still relevant: "developers" nowadays throw around terms like "scalability" and other hype phrases and think that since they know the slightest thing about some new technology, they're a real developer. Sadly, this is incredibly naive. Any script kiddie / code monkey can some application in the latest over-hyped framework and say "HEY LOOK, IT CAN HAS NOSQL, IT CAN HAS SCALABILITY, IT DOES BIGGGGDATA", and write some inefficient code for this application. The truth is that many don't even understand basic data structures and how a computer processes information at a lower level. If you don't understand what something such as algorithmic complexity is, and can't look at your code from a more scientific and critical point of view, don't call yourself a freaking developer. Pick up a book and learn what REAL computer science is, not what the latest and greatest over-hyped framework is called.