[kkielhofner]

> That so many people working in software don’t have deep hardware expertise or are not familiar with data centers plays to that hand.

I like to remind myself that AWS is 20 years old. That's an entire generation of people from devs to C-Suite that likely don't know anything else. For many of these people all they know about hardware is their laptop. All they know about bandwidth is what they pay their local ISP. All they know about storage is (maybe) USB flash drives and what Apple charges for 256GB vs 512GB.

This is not a criticism. More of a reality check to myself and others that at this point not a lot of people outside of bigger cloud and ISPs know what an Autonomous System is or what buying transit and peering costs. Nor have they bought a cabinet of bare metal or talked to a co-lo provider.

> Not a criticism, just an observation from my experiences.

Exactly!