Agree. Math isn't as important, but things one doesn't fully grasp 'just programming' are things like internal language management (eg: garbage collection, spee

Agree. Math isn't as important, but things one doesn't fully grasp 'just programming' are things like internal language management (eg: garbage collection, speed difference in different algos, pointer impacts [lang dependent], call outs to other libraries, etc) "Just throw more EC2 units at it" (which is fine and I agree with) - until a Node Js API handles 100 req/s in prod.