Knowing Linux as a developer: followup

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I'm just thinking a PHP developer should be able to configure a host on 
DigitalOcean and a handful of other things.  Nothing advanced.

Given what might be coming Linux might be a decent desktop skill to have 
so one can recycle "old" hardware - just add an SSD for a really good 
time!!


On 2022-04-27 10:43, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> There are two sides of this.
> 
> 1) code written to a "platform" AKA PHP/JS specialist.
> 
> 2) Code written with a deep platform integration. This is where you
> should know Nginx, Apache, IIS, and related OS information.
> 
> Both have a place in general software development. I prefer working
> with the Latter but Can work with the former readily enough. I think
> both should have a solid grasp of how various environment variables
> will affect their application/code and related OS level constraints
> but by no means need be a full OS admin.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:39 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> It seems to me that anyone who writes code should have some
>> knowledge of
>> every OS that code will have to work with.  It's been my experience
>> that
>> no software, machine or anything else developed by man has ever
>> worked
>> exactly as intended.   There's always some bug or quirk that needs
>> to be
>> dealt with.
>> 
>> On 4/23/22 14:16, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> This has been an interesting journey. AZPHP and a friend who owns
>> a
>>> data center confirmed that most developers do not have any
>> familiarity
>>> with Linux.  All these years I thought otherwise.
>>> 
>>> I still think there is value in knowing Linux as an opensource
>>> developer.  In my case I am a PHP developer.
>>> 
>>> Maybe being involved in Linux distracted me from becoming a better
>> 
>>> developer or maybe the opposite is true that my Linux involvement
>> has
>>> made me a better developer.
>>> 
>>> In my mind I am exploring or assessing what I might have changed
>> now
>>> that I am at this point in my life and having had the experience I
>> 
>>> have had with PHP since 2006.
>>> 
>>> In a recent post I asked about changing from dominate PHP being
>>> supported by Linux to Linux being dominate and supported by PHP or
>> 
>>> another language and DevOps came up.
>>> 
>>> Sorry I am thinking out loud and am hoping for your feedback.
>>> 
>>> I wonder if PHP has run it's course.  Maybe it is time to change
>>> course.  I need to do more research and give it more thought.
>>> 
>>> I like opensource Linux hosting.  I recently configured Ubuntu
>> LAMP +
>>> BIND + Let's Encrypt + Postfix + Dovecot.  Doing so showed me how
>> much
>>> a really do not know.
>>> 
>>> Any feedback is much appreciated.
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