>"infinitely scalable for a price" cloud systems like AWS exist.
That only applies if your application is programmed for it. Good luck scaling even if you had aws if your server had database locks everywhere, for instance.
Yeah, the college I went to back in '09 _just_ started teaching version control. All we learned were concepts and common languages from each of the major domains of programming, and math. That's it. (Think like SQL for DB, Java / Python for application development, c and c++ for embedded systems and operating systems, etc.)
That only applies if your application is programmed for it. Good luck scaling even if you had aws if your server had database locks everywhere, for instance.