[collyw]

I wouldn't expect a junior to be able to manage the whole stack and get stuff on a server. Write an application probably, but it took me a few years before I could manage everything.

[arethuza]

"I wouldn't expect a junior to be able to manage the whole stack and get stuff on a server."

Why not - with the right PaaS platform deploying stuff is trivial and you don't need to worry about servers.

[collyw]

Never seen a PAAS where it was "trivial" to set up from scratch. Can you name me one?

[arethuza]

Azure Web Sites - they deploy straight from Visual Studio.

[collyw]

Fair enough I haven't tried that yet. AWS or Heroku aren't trivial to get a Django app running.

[arethuza]

To be fair, I was probably exaggerating a bit when I said "trivial" but it is pretty straightforward and you can do all of it from inside Visual Studio:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/web...

NB You can move to more sensible deployment mechanisms, but for getting going quickly it is pretty neat to deploy straight from your IDE.