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> Your criticism reads like old school developers complaining about new devs learning Javascript without learning C or Assembly.

Valid point, but I'm a javascript dev tired of helping my peers figure out their tools when they're not even interested in discussing lower level topics on a normal day. I wish I had some grumpy old-timers around me to learn from.

> It makes deployments consistent and easy.

Consistent on the platform chosen at start, if you run into egress costs you might already be locked in to that platform and migrating AWS container format for every service might take time for those who don't understand what it does exactly. One simple mistake can be really costly if you forget to set limits. It's dangerous to put too much power in the hands of people who don't understand the possible consequences.

Don't get me wrong, I like modern software dev and day to day tasks should be easy. But too many people are lazy and uninterested in the details behind their craft. "Just install half the universe, why bother reinventing the wheel" is too common. You're not a DevOps unless you can setup and manage the workers on a CI on bare metal, you shouldn't always go that route in production though, but the knowledge is important.




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