Sysadmins vs Developers
The cluster centers on debates about the roles and value of sysadmins versus developers, including whether devs need sysadmin skills, if sysadmins are obsolete due to cloud/DevOps, and the challenges of ops work.
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Remember that the author is talking as a sysadmin, not as a dev
Give developers a sense that they somehow dont need sysadmins/ops staff?
What you described is not a sysadmin, but a bad sysadmin instead. Also, if you look at the situation 'these days' it's not even a bad sysadmins, it's mostly developers who don't even really know how their computers or operating systems work, but they're allowed to build entire infrastructures using cloud/terraform/k8s/toy-of-the-week ;)
You mean sysadmins, not developers right? :)
Devs need to be sysadmins also.
Sysadmining your machine doesn’t make you a better developer.
why not a sys admin? its fairly easy work 95% of the time ...
That still feels like "sysadmins are being replaced by developers" to me
This is not DevOps. This is more of Sysadmin territory. And Sysadmins have hard jobs. Most places don't require top-notch sysadmins because 80/20. But getting that last 20 as a sysadmin is incredibly difficult.
Because most devops folks were not sysadmins. #everythingOldIsNew