Keep in mind that full time role used to be a hell of a lot of work. Take the project I'm working on right now: https://gist.github.com/ajbdev/11f494906ebb6aa3f

Keep in mind that full time role used to be a hell of a lot of work. Take the project I'm working on right now: https://gist.github.com/ajbdev/11f494906ebb6aa3f6bdf35f2437ed09 https://gist.github.com/ajbdev/11f494906ebb6aa3f6bdf35f2437e... In ~50 lines of code I can erect a load balanced set of web servers with my app binary preloaded, secured in a private VPN subnet with an auto-scaling policy attached to it. 15 years ago this project would have meant: - Racking new hardware somewhere on premise - Configuring several routers and networking equipment - Tweaking the different software responsible for the different app layers (load balancing, web servers, etc) - Hoping we forecasted demand correctly and whatever hardware we racked can handle a traffic spike or growth surge You needed a lot more expertise back then. And really you can trade all of what I'm doing for a higher level of abstraction that requires even less knowledge of the underlying technology (netlify, heroku, amplify, etc) if you're willing to pay a little more.