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> quickly disappearing in favor of SaaS/PaaS solutions. Remember that HN is a bubble and world is a much larger place :) No, it is not disappearing "quickly".
by jve 4y ago
> quickly disappearing in favor of SaaS/PaaS solutions.
Remember that HN is a bubble and world is a much larger place :) No, it is not disappearing "quickly".
- benjaminwootton 4y agoWhilst the word quickly is subjective, I haven’t seen anyone roll out Oracle for about 15 years vs literally hundreds of Snowflake, Redshift, RDS, Elastic cloud deployments. Maybe OLTP is moving to SaaS slower, but the on prem data warehouse market must be dying a death?
- Annatar 4y ago
- jve 4y agoWhat you say also marks some direction: there are new and useful DB technologies to be learned. Anyway, software world is built on DBs, whether they are administered by someone in the cloud or not.
- jeltz 4y agoYes there are very few Oracle rollouts but there are still plenty of on prem MySQL, PostgreSQL and MS SQL rollouts. Yes, there is a lot more cloud today, but I feel Oracle really is the product hit the hardest.
- happymellon 4y agoMay I introduce you to Vodafone? There is noSql solutions being built, but when I left a couple of years ago there were Oracle database backed projects in flight. Some of the 3rd party applications supported PostGres so they didn't even need to stick with Oracle, but they did. It was when management pushed for a project to be Oracle back that caused a few of us to quit. It's nasty enough to develop on, I don't want to support too.
- mastazi 4y agoI'm located on the opposite side of the world with respect to Silicon Valley, and admin jobs are disappearing quickly here. This may surprise you but we have heard about this "cloud" thingy. ;-)
- pesfandiar 4y agoThere are industries much slower to adapt new technologies right here in North America. The HN bubble is not just geographical.
- raverbashing 4y agoBut the question is, would you like to get a job at those companies relying on outdated processes where you take care of a pet server? Maybe even running on an old flavour of proprietary UNIX?
- butlerm 4y agoAlmost no one has a job taking care of a pet server. They would be bored to tears when any decent sysadmin can take care of dozens to hundreds.
- Annatar 4y agoIt's like every fashion fad in IT: stuff hits, everybody goes gaga over the toy examples until it's time to put it in production. Then they finally find out what kind of a dumpster trash fire the newfangled fashion fad is, and start looking at tried and true technologies. It's always the same.