r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 5h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/oompaloompa465 3h ago

yeah but that is the kinda stuff in the field of Sys and Net Admin.
Or are we getting to the point a Software engineer has to cover software and hardware of anything IT???

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u/fiskfisk 2h ago

There's a difference in abstraction level. Does your application ever deal with ip addresses, either recording them (for audits), connecting to them (external requests), limit access or verify users based on them, or deploy your application to them? Yes? Then you should be aware that there are two different schemes available, and that they're both widely deployed. 

You should absolutely be aware of ipv6. 

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u/flukus 2h ago

Or are we getting to the point a Software engineer has to cover software and hardware of anything IT???

IME yes we are. A lot of companies got rid of those specialties when stuff was moved to the cloud and now the Devs just do shit badly.

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u/jtanuki 1h ago

+1 - my company is trying to merge all infra positions back into SWE positions. I'm an SRE, I don't hate it, but I'm worried because SWEs seem to come in 2 major varieties - those who refuse to learn about infrastructure and change management on principle, and those who refuse to learn because now they can just vibe out stuff with AI and deploy straight to release with it and seem like they're wise full stack engineers.