If you are not a developer already, I highly recommend learning how to code in a mature scripting language like Ruby or Python. Most sysadmins who have Linux he

If you are not a developer already, I highly recommend learning how to code in a mature scripting language like Ruby or Python. Most sysadmins who have Linux heritage can code mean awk/bash/shell scripts but are scared of objects and stuff like hashes. Start learning about real-time data and stream-based logging. LinkedIn and Netflix are pushing the bar higher with their Apache incubated to independent project open source contributions. As businesses try to gain more competitive/operational advantages/efficiencies, real-time data is becoming more important. Why ask what the customer did last week if they can see what the customers are doing right now. The "grand-daddy" article: "The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction" https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha... (discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916557) http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/01/improving-netflixs-operational.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/01/improving-netflixs-opera... https://engineering.linkedin.com/stream-processing/moving-faster-data-streams-rise-samza-linkedin https://engineering.linkedin.com/stream-processing/moving-fa... https://engineering.linkedin.com/data-streams/apache-samza-linkedins-real-time-stream-processing-framework https://engineering.linkedin.com/data-streams/apache-samza-l...