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I wonder how much of a problem this is. Anecdotally: I've spent my entire career - about 5 years beyond university - working in a cloud-only environment. My de
by greyskull 7y ago
I wonder how much of a problem this is. Anecdotally:
I've spent my entire career - about 5 years beyond university - working in a cloud-only environment. My dev machine is an ec2 instance, whose environment my company provisions appropriately, and we have tooling for managing the application environment end to end where I rarely have to worry about linux primitives.
I can put together some pretty impressive things on AWS, reasonably comfortably, but I know that if I ever leave for a company that still runs their infrastructure classically, I'll be at a disadvantage. I've even stumbled around one-off linux environments for personal projects, most of the concepts are still foreign to me.
- gerbilly 7y agoFunny, I come from the opposite direction. I've been using Linux¹ and FreeBSD since the early 1990s, and was using UNIX since the mid 80s (SunOS, AIX, ...) I find it really easy to deploy things in the cloud. I especially find it easy to fix cloud deployments when they don't work, compared to my cloud only colleagues. If we're not careful, I think we might start to lose some basic OS level skills. There are stories, perhaps apocryphal, about certain tribes of South American natives who find axe heads discarded by another tribe and see it as the work of the gods. They don't know how to make their own axe heads, and see them as mystical objects. It's not anyones fault for not being born early enough to have ridden Linux from its infancy, but I would encourage people to learn the basics of the OS. Putting together cloud offerings, that's only product knowledge. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X