Atomic web development

One thing that I have come to appreciate about ASP.NET is the flexibility of the platform. You not only can crate monolithic applications all using n-tier architecture with centralized configuration data and properly nested custom types and

But at its core, ASP.NET will work as long as IIS and the .NET Framework are setup. You can then just write a simple/complex single-page script and it'll work. I like having the option to do large scalable apps as well as being able to work at the micro level. Neat little utilities often don't require me to plug in to a larger infrastructure of an existing application. This is the one thing I don't quite enjoy with open source web frameworks.

I like the rapid development model and the fact that most of the plumbing is laid out for you, but I can't exactly write little autonomous services without setting up an entire app space dependent on some larger sort of MVC architecture.

Being able to develop things atomically is important, too...let's try and remember that.