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There will always be sysadmins in the same way there will always be Fortran programmers. There are benefits to the old way of doing things, but those benefits a
by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
There will always be sysadmins in the same way there will always be Fortran programmers. There are benefits to the old way of doing things, but those benefits are of shrinking relevance.
- mike_d 5y agoWho do you think runs the cloud you run on? (Hint: sysadmins)
- alexjurkiewicz 5y agoYep. Just like Fortran runs my bank. Both critical services, and both rumps of employment for a once-widespread speciality.
- accountofme 5y agoDon't you mean Cobol? Atleast here in Aus it was cobol on mainframes... My understanding of Fortran was that it found its niche in high performance scientific computing.
- alexjurkiewicz 5y agoSure, COBOL works for this example too. I was originally going to be a little spicy and use C++, which was once also the "everything" language but now exists only in a few (shrinking) areas.
- marvelous 5y agoYes. As Sartre said: The cloud is just other people's hell.
- oblio 5y agoWe call that "abstraction" and "layers". And yes, layers leak, but we still use layers. Those sysadmins are by and large someone else's problem now :-p