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> As the order of magnitude of systems administered increases, rare changes to occasional changes to frequent. Especially when it is not running in a VM. I thi
by rodgerd 9y ago
> As the order of magnitude of systems administered increases, rare changes to occasional changes to frequent. Especially when it is not running in a VM.
I think the perf engineer for Netflix is quite aware of this.
- jsiepkes 9y agoWhile I really respect Brendan's opinion (I've got most of his books and he is one of my IT heroes) I do think he is very netflix-IT-scale minded. When your Netflix you can maintain your own kernel with ZFS, DTrace, etc. and have a good QA setup for your own kernel / userland. Basically maintain your own distro. However when your in a more "enterprisy" environment you don't have the luxury of making Ubuntu with ZoL stable yourself. I know from first hand experience that ZoL is definitely not as stable as FreeBSD ZFS or Solaris ZFS.
- Annatar 9y agoAnd there it is - the elephant in the room noone mentioned. People in 99% of the IT shops get an existential crisis if you mention during the interview that you want to do kernel engineering. Thank you!