I do find it fascinating that we are entering a time now where there are engineers who have _only_ ever used cloud services - and that they can't conceive of a era where _we used to have to do all that stuff ourselves on-prem_.

BTW this isn't a criticism - just an observation - cloud has been around now for that long. Still feels "new" to me :D

> So you are saying when I am able to configure postgres I can earn a $300K salary? Sorry but this is utter bullshit.

did you ever try to configure postgres cluster with failover, and also backup, recovery, monitoring?

Also, I said it is hardest part, but you still need to know your load balancer, security, monitoring, updates, app deployment and configuration stuff.

Yes, this is big chunk of knowledge which in my understanding you don't have, and the topic is that this all worry free replaceable by AppEngine+CloudSql for $100/m if your traffic/data are not very large.