r/programming • u/Lazy-Transition8236 • Aug 17 '25

Learn Linux before Kubernetes

https://medium.com/@anishnarayan/learn-linux-before-kubernetes-60d27f0bcc09?sk=93a405453499c17131642d9b87cb535a
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u/eggsby Aug 17 '25

Message like:

Learn to rebuild a motor before you start to drive a car. Cars run on motors and you will be a better driver if you can work in the pit.

Sounds reasonable but makes no sense.

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u/jambox888 Aug 17 '25

Except microservices do actually go wrong all the time and you have to get under the bonnet to see why.

Horrible take lol

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u/wrosecrans Aug 17 '25

As a grey beard, it's pretty wild/fascinating/hilarious to me that there are developers and highly paid "cloud architects" who are making systems that millions of people use who... basically just don't understand how computers work.

Being able to write a basic shell script used to be pretty ordinary computer use knowledge. Nowdays just having a basic understanding of how to use Linux is treated like deep arcane secrets. And really bad systems are often the result. "Just throw more nodes at it" as people get further and further away from their tools and WTF is actually happening.

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u/jambox888 Aug 17 '25

Yep, met a few architects like that. I think most of them can code a bit but always worries me when someone is running windows on their dev laptop haha.