> Admins that don't learn to program are left behind. Only those who have some cushy full time employment, were they can't be let go, will remain. While I pers

> Admins that don't learn to program are left behind. Only those who have some cushy full time employment, were they can't be let go, will remain. While I personally am a Software Engineer + Systems Engineer combination perfect for modern Devops... I do not agree with you one bit. There will always be a place for non-programming systems administrators -- especially as we get more and more systems over time. Will those administrators be able to /scale/ to managing 100s or 1000s of system without learning some sort of programming language or configuration management system? Probably not. However, there are plenty of businesses out there that only have a handful of servers and services which can totally (and more cheaply) be managed manually. Automation has an up-front cost that doesn't always make sense for the business to spend.