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I know this article is from 2016...but my feelings about it(the article) are unchanged. Some people do not like new things, and they will blog about it in some
by clipradiowallet 5y ago
I know this article is from 2016...but my feelings about it(the article) are unchanged. Some people do not like new things, and they will blog about it in some form or fashion. Maybe their reasoning is valid, maybe it's not - it doesn't matter. Meanwhile...businesses have, and continue, to pay top $$$ for people that will help them do these things. If you want to collect this $$$, get on board.
In a few years, the things businesses want to pay $$$ will change. New blog articles about "this new stuff is bad!" will appear, and new job postings paying above-market $$$ will appear also. You can either rail on about the bad(or good) changes, and how it's just everything-old-is-new-again....or you can get with the program, and get paid. In another few years, rinse and repeat.
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- jjnoakes 5y agoIt's all anecdotal. For example I know many folks who make $$$ doing the boring old thing because it is reliable, it gets results quickly with low risk, the engineers know the tech inside and out, and not many other folks want to work with "boring tech".
- cpach 5y agoJust out of curiosity, what are some examples of boring tech in this case?
- isoskeles 5y agoMakes me think of stuff like managing WordPress although I'm not sure if that's an example they had in mind.
- aprdm 5y agoDjango, Rails, Postgres...
- benburleson 5y agoPHP, MySQL
- dijit 5y agoPerl, Postgres, Java, Solaris
- cpach 5y agoHm… Which companies still use Solaris (or Illumos)? I don’t hear about it very often these days.
- dijit 5y agoI am pretty sure my IT department is transitioning to Nexenta which is an illumos. Company before last was using some Solaris+nexenta. Samsung has an enormous smartos deployment that would rival all of Azure. (Based on what I learned about Azure)
- kazen44 5y agosmartos is a great operating system. Kind of a shame the kind of thinking did not catch on yet.
- NexRebular 5y agoWe swapped most of our linux and vmware platforms to Triton and SmartOS and been loving it ever since. Obviously there's still need to run linux in bhyves due to some specific software (e.g. docker) but generally services are on either lx-zones or smartmachines. It just works.