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> you're implying that .../... their lack of work can't be due to ageism. I think ageism is a two-way street. Some people won't hire anybody over 30/40/x years
by dorfsmay 9y ago
> you're implying that .../... their lack of work can't be due to ageism.
I think ageism is a two-way street. Some people won't hire anybody over 30/40/x years old. Some people don't want to learn news ways, new technology hoping to keep doing the same thing they always did, until retirement.
What is traditional sysadmin? Once upon a time we used to re-compile kernel after changing parameters... and monitor handful of machines. There's value to own your hardware for companies that are large enough, but methodologies have changed.
- mmt 9y agoI disagree that "ageism is a two-way street". Ageism is prejudice and/or discrimination based on perceived or actual age. How can that street go the other way? A lack of desire to learn has nothing to do with age. Traditional system administration is approximately as varied as "DevOps", so I won't attempt to answer that question. However, I can easily answer what it isn't, and that's programming, which is what the vast majority of "DevOps" is today. I'm not sure what your point is regarding recompiling kernels. Kernels are just a piece of software, and software (including kernels) still needs to be custom-compiled on occasion for a variety of reasons, though, of course, changing hard-coded parameters for static allocation of resources isn't one of them. My point is that there's tremendous value to operate (not necessarily own) ones own hardware for almost all companies. To whit, "large enough" is actually very small, considering the prices AWS and their competitors charge. As for methodologies changing, that is, of course, true, and not all have changed for the better, but, again, what's your point?