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But in your example, the sys admin hasn't been replaced by a small shell script. You've just outsourced some of the systems they would have looked after.
by nodata 15y ago
But in your example, the sys admin hasn't been replaced by a small shell script. You've just outsourced some of the systems they would have looked after.
- nl 15y agoYes, but now 1 sysadmin manages between 10 and 100 times more machines than they used to[1]. What is more, each machine supports more people than it used to. [1] http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2008/12/10/rent-or-own-amazon-ec2-vs-colocation-comparison-for-hadoop-clusters/ http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2008/12/10/rent-or-own-amazon-ec... [2] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/30/how-many-servers-can-one-admin-manage/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/30/how-m...
- jrussbowman 15y agoThe number of machines a sysadmin can support depends on what's running on those machines. This is a case where raw averages can be extremely misleading.