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Would be great to work in such a company as a Linux guru. There are so many entangled services and machines that you feel like an Indiana Jones. You ssh into a
by tryauuum 2y ago
Would be great to work in such a company as a Linux guru.
There are so many entangled services and machines that you feel like an Indiana Jones. You ssh into a machine and feel century-old dust beneath your footsteps. And you never know what will you find. Maybe a service which holds the company together. Maybe a CPU eating hog which didn't do anything useful last 3 years.
I don't enjoy writing new code much. But in such an environment even with my limited skills I can do decent improvements, especially from security point of view. Feels great
- noisy_boy 2y agoBasically the entire application is loaded with low hanging fruits and things that look like fruits but are bombs that explode upon contact.
- arnorhs 2y agoWell it sounded like there are exactly 0 Linux machines running there.. it's all windows .net / c# and a bunch of native windows apps, as I understood the article. But maybe you can replace your statement with "windows guru" and SSH with "remote desktop" and perhaps that would be fun
- tryauuum 2y agowell, with linux at least I get get the source code of the kernel and of the MySQL when given a database server which hasn't been restarted for 7 years
- doublepg23 2y agoWhen I started my recent job the team kept referring to a box running "weird linux". After getting on-boarded and accessing the box it turned out to be running a very old version of OpenBSD. To this day I'm curious who had the wherewithall to install OpenBSD in prod but was seemingly ignorant of the 1yr support cycle.
- xp84 2y agoI started reading and was hoping someone had installed one of the Linux distros that were popular at the turn of the millennium, like Mandrake, Slackware, etc. and it was still trucking along 25 years later.
- 20after4 2y agoIn 2010 or 2011, deviantArt was running on several hundred slackware servers. One of my projects at that job was converting everything to run on Debian with config management in Puppet to replace all of the old manually configured services.
- noisy_boy 2y agoThats a name I haven't heard for a while - I was obsessed with scouring deviantart for cool wallpapers during my very early Linux days of desktop tinkering (mostly fluxbox and gkrellm tweaking).
- doublepg23 2y agoOldest boxes running are RHEL5 and Win Server 2008. I was trying to explain to the IT Director that both were released when I was in elementary school so I'd have to brush up on them.
- senorrib 2y agoI'm guilty of something like that. At my very first job I used OpenBSD to manage the corporate firewall and proxy. 6 months later quit to attend college, and I have no idea what they did to that box lol.