[zsoltkacsandi]

> it makes provisioning a database even easier, which means people with even less understanding or care of how they operate will be doing so with reckless abandon, which means people like me have even more work to do cleaning up their mess. I am a big fan of gatekeeping things that keep companies afloat. If you want to touch the thing that every service is depending on, learn how it works first – I'd be thrilled to help you

Couldn’t agree more.

Kubernetes and such tools do not make things easier, they just give you the illusion of it.

[sgarland]

That is an excellent way of putting it. Abstractions makes you think you’ve got a handle on things, but when they break, now you have two problems – neither of which you’re probably equipped to solve.

[movedx]

When I was doing Econometrics at Uni, the lecturer wouldn't let us use the functions in the software that did the mathematics for us. He made us learn using Spreadsheets and doing the calculations manually, _then_ he let us use the automated functionality once we understood it.