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System Administrators, largely gone.. Only around in old/large companies. DBAs, largely gone as well.. Its not that those skills are not needed at all, its just
by tkyjonathan 9y ago
System Administrators, largely gone.. Only around in old/large companies. DBAs, largely gone as well..
Its not that those skills are not needed at all, its just that 80% of them have been automated by the likes of AWS.
Now those remaining 20% that have no one with the expertise to fix them.
AWS will also start leeching away developer jobs with the Lambda marketplace. Why build your own backend code that consumes from an API when you can buy a lambda that pushes directly to your own DynamoDB or in a table to your RDS?
However, business users always knew SQL. SQL was designed for non-technical people. Thats why 2-3 years back, even google brought back SQL to its big data platforms. Even at my last job, some finance guys had no problem using it.
Also, 'integration engineers' should have been 'data engineers' and while that is hot right now, people need to remember that its a solved problem as there have been ETL tools that do that for you for about 20 years (see informatica).