I think I know what the article wanted to say but it did a really poor job of saying it. The discussion is interesting though. As we pile ever more abstraction

I think I know what the article wanted to say but it did a really poor job of saying it. The discussion is interesting though. As we pile ever more abstractions on top of existing ones we forget what they are based on. Take young "devops" for example, there's plenty of them who don't understand what AWS has under the hood. A lot of them miss fundamental Linux knowledge and never touched virtualization tools directly. And it can bite them hard sometimes. On the other hand I think it's always been like this. I grew up doing a lot of Linux networking, virtualization, packaging, etc. But I don't know any underlying tech for that. I can't even read C code, don't know the Linux system calls. And of course there's an xkcd about this https://xkcd.com/435/ https://xkcd.com/435/