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Reddit's sysadmins neither have to maintain DC racking (nor travel), maintain hardware lifecycles, nor maintain vendor relationships. They certainly appear up t

Reddit's sysadmins neither have to maintain DC racking (nor travel), maintain hardware lifecycles, nor maintain vendor relationships. They certainly appear up to their teeth in working around AWS (EBS) deficiencies. They're not going to control a lot of their hardware, and most "fixing" of AWS pitfalls are going to come in the form of software. Now if we are talking devops, I can agree. Engineering teams this small need to wear many hats; I think jedberg has been said to have helped in development efforts, if my memory of past blogs serves right.

jedberg 16y ago
Yes, I do dev too. I just haven't done it in a long time. A lot of our sysadmin time is spent tracking down bugs in the stuff we use (like Cassandra) and doing tuning and automation. Also, I do a lot of the other business stuff, so at best I'm a part time sysadmin right now. We do pretty much do "devops" though. A lot of the work of Neil, our programmer, is tracking down bugs due to data inconsistencies due to hardware problems.