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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by mathgladiator on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:52PM (#27911228)
The challenge is that lower level work doesn't always translate into value for businesses. For instance, knowledge of sockets is very interesting. On one hand, I spent my youth learning sockets. For me to bang out a new network protocol takes a few weeks. For others, it can take months.

This manifested in my frustration when I lead building a new transport layer using just sockets. While the people working with me were smart, they had limited low level experience to debug things.

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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by shpongled on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:57PM (#27911289)
I understand that that stuff is all relatively niche/not necessarily useful in every day life (I know nothing about sockets or TCP/IP) - I just figured your average SWE would at least be familiar with the concepts, especially if they had formal training. Guess it just comes down to individual interests
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