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It doesn't take "top talent" to run the physical side of the DC. It takes processes and detail-oriented people who care. At this point, with datacenters havin
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
It doesn't take "top talent" to run the physical side of the DC. It takes processes and detail-oriented people who care.
At this point, with datacenters having been in wide production for the last 20 years, there should be plenty of 7+ year veterans.
(though yes, I have known in-house service providers that couldn't set up a new VM to save their life)
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- cookiecaper 10y agoYeah, some of the stuff in this thread is crazy. Are all these people new or what? Not too long ago, running on bare metal was the only serious option (shared hosting is non-serious). Cloud might offer some conveniences (just because AMZ and friends have made it so easy to give them more money), but the alternative is not that hard!
- ashayh 10y agoI agree the alternative isn't hard. I'm saying even very large companies just can't seem to do a great job of it. Which is why they run to AWS/etc in droves. I've seen innards of very large DCs for more than a decade. At one of my first jobs at a fortune 500, I was responsible for everything from rack and stack to the command prompt. The expected turnaround time for a single physical server was 4-6 weeks until the application could be installed on it! One of the reasons was that they did not have automated DHCP/PXE provisioning. I started the process to enable it.. going through all the political, security mess, it was 9 months until it was enabled. I was gone by then. An extreme example for sure, but if AWS revenues are growing like they are, then surely such issues are everywhere to some extent.