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Re:A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just t... by antocv on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:00AM (#21024590)
If you are working on fabs, yes you should understand basic chemistry. If you are working on distributed stateless cloud-agnostic applications, yes you should understand both the networking and kernel of your OS on which said applications run.

Even if there is an abstraction layer with nice boundaries and well documented, you can still not ignore the layer below and pretend its raining.

When you are making a web app (for advertising purposes since this is HN), can you ignore understanding HTTP and TCP and IP? Would you hire a web-application developer who didnt know how to setup a web-server or load-balance his app?

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Re:A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just t... by Rychard on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:52AM (#21026109)
> Would you hire a web-application developer who didnt know how to setup a web-server or load-balance his app?

My company does this all the time.

In fact, in the absence of our step-by-step guides, I would estimate that maybe 5% of the development team could successfully configure their local web server on their own.

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