u/Connect_Detail98

I just interviewed a person for a Senior Cloud Engineer position. He has a ton of credentials about security, like SOC2, HIIPA...

My first cloud question is "what would you do if you have a service that is located in a public subnet and is getting accessed through the public IP of the instance". I asked some ownership and leadership questions before this.

He didn't talk about security groups, he didn't mention that he'd check if the instance if open to any attacks, didn't mention that the instance should be migrated to a private subnet. When I explicitly told him to please fix the network layout, he insisted the public subnet was the correct place for an API service running in EC2. When I told him it should go in the private subnet he said that clients would need to connect to the instance via the NAT. That's not how an AWS NAT works, omg.

I rejected this person, not solely based on this, but this was a very bad start to the interview. Am I wrong to think this is a big deal? This is the sort of stuff I learned on my first week reading about the Cloud and this guy has 12+ years of experience working with all the cloud providers and doesn't know it? It was such a big red flag.

Any opinions? I just want to make sure I'm not being a dick, maybe someone can defend this guy and make me see why this is acceptable.

In my understanding, the end goal of Marxist and Leninist communism is to abolish the state and to have a classless society.

It seems to me China is currently going the opposite way, the state is gaining power internally and globally. This probably means that they are in the first stages of socialism, in which they consider necessary growing to prevent external forces from disrupting their future transition into communism.

Let's assume China reaches a point in which it is the strongest world power. It has successfully taken over the US and is now the most advanced and powerful nation in the world. There are no threats to their communism plans.

How do they migrate from being one of the countries with the most involved state into a stateless country? What does a country with more than a billion people look like when there is no state and no social classes?

Do you think this is realistic?