You are not a real dev unless you can build your own CPU atom by atom
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ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I can’t tell you the number of devs I’ve met that know jack shit about infrastructure and networking. Even simple questions like understanding their subnet or how a load balancer works.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
where is the lemmy community for those who self-host chip fabrication?
python@lemmy.world 2 days ago
…well I don’t have to know that because AWS is like, serverless, dude.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
It’s in the cloud
deft@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
Not just your industry. Every industry is like this.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Look I’m mostly in infrastructure and I don’t know much beyond core principles behind software development, I can’t really cast stones. But yeah they can be surprisingly ignorant sometimes.
starik@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Those are the ones who can maintain eye contact, aren’t they?
blarghly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The subwhat?
fervent_apathy@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
It’s the water based version of skynet.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Sure. I consider myself a fairly good dev. Not an amazing genius or anything but pretty competent in my area. Wouldn’t have a clue how a load balancer works beyond what’s in the name, I guess it balances loads. I can assume it does this by distributing requests to different servers because that just makes sense, but I don’t even really know that. Networking might as well be black magic as far as I’m concerned. I’m grateful we have a decent infra team who knows about all that. So I’m not surprised.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s because an “IT engineer” is like an “engineer in chemistry”. You have so many sub-disciplines that a given engineer can’t be expected to know everything. Nobody is surprised if an organic chemist doesn’t know much about heat exchanger optimisation, or a chemical process engineer is confused by organic synthesis.
In the same way, I’ve met devops guys that know surprisingly (to me) little about the intricacies of hand writing multi-threaded high performance calculation code. In the other hand, they’re wizards at stuff like load balancing and optimising how we use sub-processes for I/O, CPU-bound or memory bound tasks. You would think the two are very similar, but even then it quickly becomes clear that people really become specialists in their field.
Hoimo@ani.social 2 days ago
Yeah, but why is CIDR notation like that? You put a bigger number at the end and your subnet becomes smaller? Why would you want that?
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
When you translate it out it bits it’s the number of bits that are active in the net mask
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 is a /0
0000 0000 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /24
0000 0011 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /26
And since it’s used for marching, it follows how many there are.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
That’s because they’re back end devs. There is one way to do things, you learn the one way to do the thing, you do it that way, you’re done.
The fun is in front end, it’s 15 different ways of doing things, but you don’t like any of them, to develop a 16th way, eventually you get better but the 16th way so come up with a 17th way. Eventually you get sick of all of this and go back to SSGs as God intended.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There’s a perfect way to do anything in frontend but only on the dev’s one computer. Everyone else will get garbage.