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Is it reasonable to expect a web developer to be able to configure nginx? To be honest, I guess maybe not. But the person in question was maintaining how https slowed all sites down and so should be avoided. When I questioned him about the new handshaking in TLS1.3, it became evident he didn’t know what I was referring to.

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If you can't apt-get install nginx and copy a basic configuration from the internet, I have bad news for you.

Tuning performance and setting up logging is another matter.

Compared to the habit of including huge gobs of javascript and unoptimised images on "modern" web sites the impact of https is nugatory.

DevOps engineer will configure docker\tls\nginx and all that stuff

Surely you just means "ops"? I thought the point of someone being "DevOps" is that the developer also does operations, so it would be their own problem. I wonder if that word has become so diluted that its lost the reason that it came into existence in the first place.

Devops is more about dev working with ops and vice versa instead of siloing. That necessarily ends with some crossover of skills but it isn’t strictly necessary

During my brief time in Devops, I have learned that; if you're getting paged at 3am from your server being DDoS-ed, you're not going to be very effective as a developer . . .

Yes: it helps the developer to learn to code much more defensively - which is a very good thing. But then, that developer has no time to code. Defensively, or otherwise.

(depending on the environment, and management's willingness to invest in infrastructure - yeah, you can really get bogged down in this stuff).

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