Is There Still a Need for That Kind of Knowledge?

As things become more complicated, you kind of have to specialize. I think it's just not every developer needs to know it at this point. You'renot gong to have an angry sis admin coming after you when a box runs out of ram. And your bill for a w s is suddenly 30 grantaa ha, a ha. Theyare much more interested in the provisioning of thousands of containers and v ms.