My take on how a decade (or more) of using cloud services for everything has seemingly deskilled the workforce.
Just recently I found myself interviewing senior security engineers just to realize that in many cases they had absolutely no idea about how the stuff they supposedly worked with, actually worked.
This all made me wonder, is it possible that over-reliance on cloud services for everything has massively deskilled the engineering workforce? And if it is so, who is going to be the European clouds, so necessary for EU’s digital sovereignty?
I did not copy-paste the post in here because of the different writing style, but I get no benefit whatsoever from website visits.
Exactly! If you know enough foundational principles, you can quickly rule things out and develop ways to narrow down what remains. If you rely too much on diagnostic tools, you’ll miss out when the tools fail to catch something odd.
I’m a software engineer and we had a problem where our corporate laptop wouldn’t allow us to install our dev tools (needed to debug a windows specific integration and we dev on macos). Instead of waiting a week for IT to come fix it, I realized we just needed it to look like a service was running locally, and we had ssh through the git bash shell, so I set up an SSH tunnel between the windows system and the dev machine and they were able to keep working while waiting for IT to get time to help us. We rarely use SSH at work, but I understand enough about how networks and sockets work so I was able to quickly help them solve the problem.
You don’t get that type of intuition if you don’t understand how the underlying tech works, and that’s true regardless of your field.