We’re not talking about software engineering. The recommendation to read a book about basic computing is obviously not intended for computer scientists. Depend

We’re not talking about software engineering. The recommendation to read a book about basic computing is obviously not intended for computer scientists. Depending on your definition of “service” here, I’d argue that most code is not written to run services, and certainly not long-running services. Like, core-utils is a shitton of programs, and a shitton of code, and none of that runs as a service. Most of what you mentioned in your first comment aren’t services. Bio researchers don’t write long-running services. They don’t even really understand how computers are allocating resources. They don’t know shit about putting an HPC cluster together and managing it. Are they not writing code? I agree with the other person who said your education seems incomplete. Yours is a very narrow view of computers and computing.