There is a lot of important knowledge about securing Unix machines that none seems to care about any more.
In this Cloud world, where every service just falls out of the sky straight into our arms, ready for consumption, we don't seem to need a lot of it anymore.
But maybe it's not really the case.
Someone in the remote castles of $bigcloudprovider must still know about how to implement firewalls, how to elastically scale message queues and databases.
The spells of Consul, Eventual Consistency, Gossip protocols and Load Balancing are relegated more and more in the rooms of those big providers, until the point they have sucked in the entire world.
By then, nothing will be left.
You will be only able to buy Scalable Services that the seller says it is secure, apart that you are not able to say whether it is for real:
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