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Who do you think runs the cloud you run on? (Hint: sysadmins)
by mike_d 5y ago
Who 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