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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.
Ah, the common clay of the new Web