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r/sysadmin primarily but it's not that great. Unfortunately a lot of what used to make this area great has slowly died... IRC being the loss felt most keenly.
by jpgvm 5y ago
r/sysadmin primarily but it's not that great.
Unfortunately a lot of what used to make this area great has slowly died... IRC being the loss felt most keenly. It still "alive" and a few folks like my self still hang out in various channels but it's nothing like it was when I was getting started. Mailing lists being the other one, certain dev lists and network groups are still really active and frequented by folks that run the big NOCs but also in a sharp decline.
Some of it's being replaced by random Slack instances but this is shit.
Unsure what can be done other than try bootstrap a community.
- hmrr 5y agoI suspect it’s dying slowly. All the functional sysadmin stuff is being rolled into devops and cloud operations these days and all the old school folk, me included, are being pushed into management. It’s sad really as it’s part of my life I really enjoyed.
- op00to 5y agoSysadmins taking about how the industry is evolving always reminds me of an auto mechanic complaining that cars don't need regular "tuneups" anymore.
- jpgvm 5y agosystem administration hasn't died though it's just using more complex/sophisticated tooling than existed in the past and requires more development chops. Resulting in new names for the roles and the old hangouts becoming less relevant as they were arranged topically around technologies that are falling out of use primarily (atleast in the case of IRC channels etc). There isn't really a new home for these communities outside of stuff like the Apache and Kubernetes Slack instances which is very sad.