As a software engineer, software is part of your job title; thus, it almost feels like you should only know software. However, in the decades of building software, I realized that gaining knowledge about hardware is equally important to learning code. Although I might never be as good as an expert in hardware, I want to expand myself beyond just software. So, I never shy away from getting my hands dirty with hardware. To reduce the cost of my AWS cloud service, I recently decided to move some le...