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Re: It Was Never About Ops

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Post by flukus » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 12:41 AM UTC

Baeocystin wrote: post #49

Johnny555 wrote: post #25

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Well, except they don't really have sysadmin experience. They set up a server for their development environment once, and because of that, they get turned into the company sysadmin. So they set up the companies production environment, and the lack of experience shows. Multiple single points of failure, inadequate (if at all) backups, poor network design, etc. One favorite situation I ran into: a database server with…

One of the first questions I ask techs I'm considering bringing on to help is if RAID is a backup. If I see them physically cringe at the thought, I know they've got potential.

I'm an awful sysadmin, but why would anyone thing RAID is a backup? Two minutes of googling should show that it's not.

Re: It Was Never About Ops

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Post by flukus » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 12:42 AM UTC

cmdrfred wrote: post #24

toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

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If you need to do backend and front end ("full stack"), know devops, know cloud primitives, know database fundamentals, know document storage (Elasticsearch), what are you going to actually be good at? Not much. You can't have both depth and breadth of knowledge, unless you're doing unhuman levels of cocaine and never sleeping.

I think you can be good at all those things, just not at 23.

Even if you're good at all those things, can you imagine keeping up in all those areas?

Re: It Was Never About Ops

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Post by Baeocystin » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 4:54 AM UTC

flukus wrote: post #51

Baeocystin wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the first questions I ask techs I'm considering bringing on to help is if RAID is a backup. If I see them physically cringe at the thought, I know they've got potential.

I'm an awful sysadmin, but why would anyone thing RAID is a backup? Two minutes of googling should show that it's not.

The number of people who understand the difference between resiliency and duplication, even in the tech world, is smaller than you would think. And far too many people think they are good sysadmins because they installed a file server that one time.

"Thankfully", problems like CryptoLocker have, paradoxically, made my job as a sysadmin easier, as now most companies I work for are familiar with the horror stories of how someone lost years of work/all their bay pictures/etc and did not have a reliable, cold-storage backup to deal to recover from such attacks.