> Over the last ten years, the market has tried to kill off the hardware, systems, network and security people, and mostly succeeded. In my experience, people

> Over the last ten years, the market has tried to kill off the hardware, systems, network and security people, and mostly succeeded. In my experience, people who want to do interesting work on networking and systems. (Think, building large scale networks and systems with high resillience) dont want to work for smaller companies anymore. They either work at: A) highly specialized companies which fit their niche. (ISP's or IXP's for instance). B) do consulting and project based work for a lot of companies who have very specific requirements. (Think, building a identity provider system for a country etc). Small scale complexity has been disappearing because everyone just throws hardware at the problem instead of thinking about how to architecture their infra "correctly". Why optimize your OS's scheduler parameters to get more performance from your filesystem when you have nearly free VC money and a budget to burn on resources in AWS?