The Developer's Dystopian Future
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The Developer's Dystopian Future
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Re: The Developer's Dystopian Future
#2instead of commenting, i'm just going to link you to http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722.
Re: The Developer's Dystopian Future
#3I feel his pain, in a sense.
I'm 24, and 'cloud' to me is 'a vps somewhere', I don't grok the difference, I've worked in elastic compute environments before, but that's definitely not what you're buying with things like EC2, and I simply don't see the value in it.
other things like the 'DevOps' title; seems to mean either a sysadmin who can do configuration management, or a developer who can configure apache.
everywhere I go, I feel like I should have a large set of development skills, but I've been in operations for 5 years now, and I'm regarded as being a very good ops person.
I'm a 24 year old sysadmin, and I feel like I'm being left behind.
this is not an industry you can grow old in, unless you become a manager or specialise.
at least... that's what I fear.
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#4Luckily you don't need any of these fad/new libraries to make good products and websites.
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#5I feel his pain, in a sense. I'm 24, and 'cloud' to me is 'a vps somewhere', I don't grok the difference, I've worked in elastic compute environments before, but that's definitely not what you're buying with things like EC2, and I simply don't see the value in it. other things like the 'DevOps' title; seems to mean either a sysadmin who can do configuration management, or a developer who can configure apache. everywh…
> I simply don't see the value in it.
Your intuition is probably right. On EC2, you pay a lot and get very little, for the sake of flexibility that you may not need.
If you never find yourself saying "oh man I need another server for the next 6 hours", then EC2 is just overpriced hosting.
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#6Luckily you don't need any of these fad/new libraries to make good products and websites.
Unfortunately, when you're job hunting ... you do.
As I'm finding out. Two years as a system admin and not keeping up with trending tech and I can't land anything here.
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#7Your dystopia should include the millions of engineers India graduates each year. In many ways the difference between these groups and US groups is the technology curve, US group offer cutting edge technology while Indian company will build Java backends with awt. If you fall behind the tech curve you might be outsourced.
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#8I feel his pain, in a sense. I'm 24, and 'cloud' to me is 'a vps somewhere', I don't grok the difference, I've worked in elastic compute environments before, but that's definitely not what you're buying with things like EC2, and I simply don't see the value in it. other things like the 'DevOps' title; seems to mean either a sysadmin who can do configuration management, or a developer who can configure apache. everywh…
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#9I think there is still room for a generalist to make a dent in the world. If you can build full stack apps you're at least worth gold to someone / yourself as a technical cofounder if you can stomach the risk.
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#10Luckily you don't need any of these fad/new libraries to make good products and websites.
Unfortunately, when you're job hunting ... you do. As I'm finding out. Two years as a system admin and not keeping up with trending tech and I can't land anything here.
Where do you live? In the center of San Francisco?
In every other place in the world nobody give a damn about the latest technology. They only need something that work for they problems.