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As an engineer I feel an obligation to know about these things and how they work. It might be appropriate for my work. For my own projects I am just going to start out with a Django or Meteor app and if I'm lucky enough to have to worry about scale I'll have some idea of what to do next.

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> It might be appropriate for my work.

so might be AS400, but few are trying to learn that I guess.

Let's be fair, it's quite likely that if anyone is looking into this stuff is more because it's the technology du jour, rather then the off chance that they end up with 100 million users. It could be useful, and learning stuff is fun, but that's not the real drive.

> if anyone is looking into this stuff is more because it's the technology du jour, rather then the off chance that they end up with 100 million users

Knowing the technology du jour is a lot more likely to get you a job, even if an older technology is better in some ways.

As a sysadmin, I feel an obligation to know about these things so I have sufficient warning of the next trendy maintenance burden that's coming down the track. This is how I credit my HN reading as real work ;-)

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