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Yes, I think you are right. The era I'm recounting is from roughly 1995 to 2001-ish at various local ISPs and medium size dev shops. I did know some fantastic
by icedchai 4y ago
Yes, I think you are right. The era I'm recounting is from roughly 1995 to 2001-ish at various local ISPs and medium size dev shops.
I did know some fantastic sysadmins at a local university around that time period. They had huge labs of Alphas and Suns and automated everything! Unfortunately, those folks didn't go into industry.
- doctor_eval 4y agoYes - I was talking early 90s, certainly pre-1995. There was certainly a rough period after that as the internet emerged, and I do remember being frustrated that there weren’t better tools for deploying and maintaining servers in the various ISPs I worked in. As a developer I wrote some tools to help the sysadms but it was a difficult period and I’m not sure that period has really finished yet which might be why AWS has become so popular. The closest I’ve seen to devops nirvana has been NixOS, but its frustratingly divergent terminology and file formats make it very hard to cross the chasm.