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> And, I just created a new product. That's exactly the point. Is this what your day job is paying you to do?
by lfowles 11y ago
> And, I just created a new product.
That's exactly the point. Is this what your day job is paying you to do?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIf he's a sysadmin then yes. What he described is setting up communications infrastructure. Someone set up Slack for the company. The same person could have set up an internal IRC server.
- kefka 11y agoI do a great deal of R&D and work with emerging technologies. I'm also one of the leads for IoT rollout. In essence, I look at many sectors and areas at the same time, and determine how it can be used in our org. I was looking at message passing using IRC as a form of command and control. The hackers have used it successfully for controlling a force of DDoS clients; why not a server farm? I know that Ansible, chef, and others exist. But IRC is human readable, meaning status messages can be passively read. Pretty much, I have a dream job. I can get funding for pretty much anything I want, have access to petabyte FS, access to 3 supers(HPC, not clusters), multiple clusters, and more. And then I'm asked, "what can you make with that?" You learn quick in those situations.