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  • 5 months

    A huge problem are developers who lack a fundamental understanding of how the internet even works. I’ve had to explain how short, unqualified names resolve vs how fqdns resolve. Or why even you may not be able to reach another node in your proverbial cluster, because they are on different subnets. Or, why using GUIDs as hostnames is a generally bad idea, and will cause things to fail in unpredictable ways, especially with deeply nested subdomains.

    • I have worked with too many devs that didn’t even know what the 7 layers/OSI are or why they exist.

      they didn’t know what a network port was used for and why it’s important to not expose 3306 to the internet.

      they couldn’t understand that fragmentation of a message bus occurs when you don’t dedupe the contents.

      you know, morons.

        • 5 months

          Why the fuck would anyone use a guid as a hostname?

          My favorite I’ve seen in the category was when they had hostnames that were basically the IP address decorated with some bullshit. Like yeeeeeeeeah, that totally makes fucking sense. 😆

        • Why would someone want that as their hostname???
          I’d understand mountpoint but that?