Probably best career decision I ever made, was in 1999, 1 year into my career, to switch from system administration to programming as my focus.
Because?
System Admins R.I.P.?
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Re: System Admins R.I.P.?
#62Yes and no. System admins aren't disappearing - they're specializing into 2 distinct professions: * Those working for infrastructure providers (IBM, Amazon, Rackspace) focus on the bottom half of the stack: everything from the datacenter's floor plan to switching and VM allocation. * Those working for infrastructure consumers (everybody else) focus on the upper half: the business's software stack, how to glue it toge…
Shykes comment is better than the article. since about mid 2000s sys admins, regardless of what their job titles are, have become infrastructure engineers. learn the vmware Api, the red hat satellite api, some databases, write some socket apps for monitoring, learn some charting. I'm actually a developer now, but the demands of infrastructure engineering is how I got there.
Re: System Admins R.I.P.?
#63This reminds me of a sentence I heard somewhere before... Paraphrased: You can make any statements -- so long as you end it with a question mark. I think it was The Daily Show, when John commented on media headlines.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-13-2006/the-...
Nice find! WTF is up with Arnold at the end of the clip?!
Re: System Admins R.I.P.?
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
"literally zero chance"? Come on now... I've only worked on ~10 paid development gigs and one of the first ones was a pharma research company who hired my team to create an interface for a truckload of sensitive data after nothing more than a phone call and a quick NDA. This pattern has continued in a few subsequent projects, often with no NDA or contract whatsoever. A great many companies stop caring about privacy t…
I'm serious. Between government data retention regulations and hyper-paranoid client pharmaco company execs the odds of a CRO putting their data out on the cloud are functionally nil. This may change one day but that's the reality today. We're talking the kinds of shops that are still signing million dollar deals with IBM reps to provide in-house server infrastructure. There's a world of difference between hiring con…
Point taken, but you shouldn't be so quick with the 'never gonna happen' proclamations. Technology moves fast. There are many undisputed benefits to the cloud model. Yes, there are serious drawbacks too, especially for certain industries, but where you see insurmountable obstacles, others will see business opportunities.
Re: System Admins R.I.P.?
#65Probably best career decision I ever made, was in 1999, 1 year into my career, to switch from system administration to programming as my focus.
Because?
(Sorry, I missed this reply).
For me, it was the best decision, as I enjoy programming much more than sysadmin work. I get my kicks out of creating new things.
Valuable experience though.