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noprocrastedtoday at 4:18 PM1 replyview on HN

Unless we're talking actual PaaS (Heroku, Render, Railway, etc), the cloud also needs a dedicated skillset, so "cloud" doesn't remove the need from a sysadmin.

If you can get (and trust they do it right) developers to do AWS or Kubernetes, you should be able to trust them to do conventional Linux sysadmin on a bunch of dedicated boxes.


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goosejuicetoday at 6:45 PM

I suspect you're either severely underestimating what the cloud offers or thinking of a very narrow set of software businesses.

A full stack/backed dev is more than capable of learning both, but one of those has way more foot guns than the other.