> You have people who build stuff without caring where and how it runs. In the old days, developers would also configure the design of the system it ran on. "

> You have people who build stuff without caring where and how it runs. In the old days, developers would also configure the design of the system it ran on. "Alright, we're going to use some fast CPU front end nodes with smaller, faster disks, and then have a load balancer, our database server is going to have the most RAM, now let's set these resources up on a CDN to serve faster, this memacache server is really going to lighten the load..." I think the idea was to use tools that automatically did all this work for you, but it just ended up creating another tier of people that configure this side of it.