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Then it's disturbing that they're so non-standardized. I personally wouldn't want to spend a bunch of time becoming an expert in a skill that only applies to on

by _bxg1 7y ago

Then it's disturbing that they're so non-standardized. I personally wouldn't want to spend a bunch of time becoming an expert in a skill that only applies to one company's physical servers.

chrisseaton 7y ago
Why would they standardise? They see their way of doing things as their competitive advantage - they each think their approach is better. Maybe you don’t understand how much people spend on these services? If you’re spending a million dollars a month on AWS then it pays to have a few people who focus on AWS full time and know it intimately. I really don’t think you need to let yourself get disturbed by this.
GhettoMaestro 7y ago
Lol. Are you new to technology or something?
- dang 7y ago
  If you keep breaking the site guidelines, we're going to have to ban you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - GhettoMaestro 7y ago
    You know what? Fuck it. Ban me. If you really think the above comment is egregious, fuck you. Dumb motherfucker.
    - dang 7y ago
      I don't want to ban you! I'd rather try to persuade you to use the site as intended. It's in your interest to do so, because if HN becomes a flamewar wreck, it won't remain a good place to discover new things, or read interesting articles, or whatever else it's good for.
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jpalomaki 7y ago
If we can learn anything from history, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the standardization. Just look at situation on the operating system side. Different flavors of Unix, VMS, z/OS, Windows. Sure there are concepts that apply to all of them, but if you want to be an expert you really need to go deep on the vendor specific things.
- wyclif 7y ago
  Anecdotal: my cousin is a sysadmin and he recently took a certification class for z/OS. He says it was probably the best career-enhancing step he's ever made.
thejigisup 7y ago
the implementation details are different but the concepts don't change across the cloud providers. serverless compute is serverless compute. object storage is object storage. a vm is a vm.

by _bxg1 7y ago

Then it's disturbing that they're so non-standardized. I personally wouldn't want to spend a bunch of time becoming an expert in a skill that only applies to one company's physical servers.

chrisseaton 7y ago

Why would they standardise? They see their way of doing things as their competitive advantage - they each think their approach is better. Maybe you don’t understand how much people spend on these services? If you’re spending a million dollars a month on AWS then it pays to have a few people who focus on AWS full time and know it intimately. I really don’t think you need to let yourself get disturbed by this.

GhettoMaestro 7y ago

Lol. Are you new to technology or something?

dang 7y ago
If you keep breaking the site guidelines, we're going to have to ban you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- GhettoMaestro 7y ago
  You know what? Fuck it. Ban me. If you really think the above comment is egregious, fuck you. Dumb motherfucker.
  - dang 7y ago
    I don't want to ban you! I'd rather try to persuade you to use the site as intended. It's in your interest to do so, because if HN becomes a flamewar wreck, it won't remain a good place to discover new things, or read interesting articles, or whatever else it's good for.

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jpalomaki 7y ago

If we can learn anything from history, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the standardization. Just look at situation on the operating system side. Different flavors of Unix, VMS, z/OS, Windows. Sure there are concepts that apply to all of them, but if you want to be an expert you really need to go deep on the vendor specific things.

wyclif 7y ago
Anecdotal: my cousin is a sysadmin and he recently took a certification class for z/OS. He says it was probably the best career-enhancing step he's ever made.

thejigisup 7y ago

the implementation details are different but the concepts don't change across the cloud providers. serverless compute is serverless compute. object storage is object storage. a vm is a vm.