I view AWS as a study in doing everything the "bare hands" way. Here are some examples of the old sysadmin ways of doing things vs the modern "web" way: * regi

I view AWS as a study in doing everything the "bare hands" way. Here are some examples of the old sysadmin ways of doing things vs the modern "web" way: * regions -> self-balancing algorithms like RAFT * roles/permissions -> tokens * IP address filtering -> tokens * CPU clusters -> multicore/containerization/Actor model * S3 -> IPFS or similar content-addressable filesystems It's not just AWS having to deal with this stuff either: * CORS -> Subresource Integrity (SRI) * server languages (CGI) -> Server-Side Includes (SSI) * Javascript -> functional reactive, declarative and data-driven components within static HTML * async -> sandbox processes, fork/join, auto-parallelization (seen mostly in vector languages but extendable to higher-level functions) * CSS -> a formal inheritance spec (analogous to knowing set theory vs working around SQL errata) I could go on forever but I'll stop there. We are living at a very interesting time in the evolution of the web. I think that web dev has reached the point where desktop dev was in the mid-1990s and is ripe for disruption. No disruption will come from the big companies though, so this is your chance to do it from your parents' basement!