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> DevOps/SRE names exist because the tech scene had to stop the confusion between the hardcore linux admins who can code and the dude who can setup your desktop
by stonogo 10y ago
> DevOps/SRE names exist because the tech scene had to stop the confusion between the hardcore linux admins who can code and the dude who can setup your desktop computer.
If that confusion existed in any otherwise-competent organization, it was only in the valley. I was a systems administrator before any of "SRE," "DevOps," or "linux" came to be, and I don't think anyone has ever confused me for tech support.
- sk5t 10y agoMost of the working Windows system administrators I have met could not code their way out of a wet paper bag (but a majority could code their way into one). If you've been unlucky enough to work on a "managed" workstation, their near-total unawareness of optimization, state, and exception handling is why your Windows login script takes 10 minutes to crunch away.
- flukus 10y agoTo be fair, windows scripting is pretty limited. Then you have powershell which is way to bloated for quick and dirty things.
- sk5t 10y agoMost of the nasty Windows scripts I've seen were VBScript, used to bludgeon about various WMI providers and to launch unfortunate executables. I don't think the language was much of a hindrance on its own, but it did nothing to repel stupidity. Several years on, I still don't know what to think about Powershell, it's basically .NET + pipelines + some discoverability aids, not terrible in concept but I will probably go on ignoring it for the rest of its life.