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Great read. I miss these kinds of articles, compared to the "use this Docker image that has everything pre-configured" articles so common today.

There's a much higher sense of achievement when putting things together with deliberate configuration and sorting out how to glue things together.

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So many people are effectively cargo-culting software around at scale by just following along walkthroughs, examples, and tutorials. I’ve seen people who are moderately good developers panic when they have to troubleshoot while following a “golden path” playbook because they’ve seemingly lost the ability to troubleshoot.

No one RTFM’s before doing stuff anymore. I have learned over the past many years that this has been key to my own journey and something others are willing to pay for.

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