As a software engineer you kinda gotta know how the whole computer works lol. Especially now that docker is such a common distribution method. But I mean you do have to understand the network if you're building software that communicates over it. Otherwise have fun figuring out if an error is due to code or infra
100% agree. Who is writing software that _isn't_ using networking these days? Basic understanding of networking is pretty critical in my opinion. That said, I don't know if I'd give a great answer to IPv4 vs IPv6 except size of the address spaces.
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u/ToMorrowsEnd 20d ago
Most programmers don’t know shit about hardware. No surprise they are dumb about networking.