• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    15 hours ago

    Arguably an engineering (hardware) or systems programming issue, too. How many IT people (even the highly competent ones) could design a router, wifi chip etc.? Or know in detail what’s going on in an internet exchange point?

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      Some developers that know both networking and developing will make those chips, the avarage developer will know about TCP/IP, DNS and those basics, at max

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      True and how many of those guys are well versed in fiber optics at IXPs. Maybe with like 20 dudes you could get an extremely in-depth snapshot of how the internet works from transistors to transformers and everything in-between.