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> A consequence of the "Kubernetes Effect" is that while distributed systems are easy to build and use, a lot of developers lose sight of the fundamental problems which make distributed systems difficult.

I would extend this to cloud as well. The more prevalent cloud becomes, the more ignorant developers become. It's like: I have Mathematica license, who cares how to calculate function derivative?

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More generally, society's achievement currently rely on a workforce that gets more and more specialized.

We are bound to fragment every sector into sub-niche where specialists in functions, general programming and infrastructure resources cooperate on their boundaries without being able to quite understand what the others are doing.

The cloud is awesome. It's infinitely more efficient than dealing with Dell and HP.

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