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This is what happens when you lay off all of your sysadmins because "the cloud", move that role to devops and then downsize that to a subduty of a developer.
by monksy 6y ago
This is what happens when you lay off all of your sysadmins because "the cloud", move that role to devops and then downsize that to a subduty of a developer.
- ShaneMcGowan 6y agoBut the profits...
- acdha 6y agoI’ve seen just as many sysadmins do this as developers. It’s not a question of job title as a psychological pitfall (people who are looking for things to succeed don’t ask when they should fail) and companies not specifically retaining people with security experience because they cost more.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoIt can be though. Downsizing and getting rid of specialists certainly hurts companies. There are only so many hours in the day and that desperate guy working 14-16 hours a day because of covid downsizing is eventually going to eff up no matter how talented she is.
- acdha 6y agoI’m not sure exactly what you’re disagreeing with. My point was just that it’s not useful to direct criticism at a job title when there are so many examples of failures by people with any given title. I’ve seen people who are ostensibly pen-testers or auditors blithely telling others to click through important warnings or have a root-on-all-machines password to make their work easier. Downsizing and other false economies are definitely a contributing factor. Security and reliability are easy to dismiss as expensive overhead until they suddenly aren’t.
- thrownaway954 6y agoi'm sure it's not that. most likely they are databases that development setup for testing or developing a quick server and just forgot to hand it over to sysops or dbas. happened all the time where i use to work.
- dvcrn 6y agoEvery cloud database provider I can think of gives you random initial credentials from the getgo