trying my best to understand the target audience for this blog post. It feels like most of these things fall somewhere in between "a sysadmin should know this" and "this might be new to a dev without much ops experience". And then, my first thought is, well if you're focused on getting software out the door your best bet is not to touch any of this stuff and deploy on a platform where configuring the Linux distro is not your responsibility. i.e. k8s or AWS ECS