Oh boy, another HN engineer who cannot imagine a technical situation other than the ones they're already familiar with telling everyone else what they don't nee

Oh boy, another HN engineer who cannot imagine a technical situation other than the ones they're already familiar with telling everyone else what they don't need. Yes, learn the basics. That way you'll know that Docker and `git` solve for almost entirely different domains, that Terraform and Ansible solve for almost entirely different domains, that "AWS" is a huge suite of services that makes no sense to compare with a single server, and that some of us do indeed work in distributed environments serving 10s or 100s (or more!) of thousands of queries per second.