Ask HN: Would you watch Infrastructure/DevOps Screencasts?

Post by tmaly » Wed, May 11, 2016, 5:44 PM UTC

arrmn wrote: post #20

tmaly wrote: post #19

Its not as visual as screen casts, but I would go for a podcast. When I have downtime or I am driving, this is my preferred learning medium.

Which podcasts are you listening for the purpose of learning?

Post by brogrammer90 » Sun, May 15, 2016, 12:43 AM UTC

markatto wrote: post #15

dozzie wrote: post #9

You know what is more important for a infrastructure/devops engineer, previously simply called "sysadmin"? Understanding several compilers and interpreters (and actually learning several programming languages). Unix C API (fork(), exec(), file descriptors, pipes, sockets, and others). Understanding how services daemonize and how they log. Learning how packaging systems work, how to build a new package, and how to ins…

I share your sentiment that there are way too many copy-paste "devops" people in the industry these days; I always thought the idea was to hire people with both sysadmin and coding skills, yet a perplexingly high proportion of people I interact with these days have neither. I'd never choose to hire somebody who can't describe a tcp handshake, explain what epoll_wait() does or whiteboard a hashtable, but that's the st…