On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Rachel Polanskis wrote: > As a sysadmin who is watching their job disintegrate, pushing the devops > line for many years, but continually forced to specialise, I just know > my future has been commoditised. Sysadmins are a fast disappearing > species, especially in environments that drank the Service Based koolaid > and used it as an excuse to push it out.
Hi Rachel. It sounds like you're not very happy about the way things are going and that's certainly sad to year. I remember your name popping up on various lists over the years. I can't remember which ones exactly but I'm sure SAGE-AU was one of them. I don't agree that sysadmins are a fast disappearing species. I do believe that Sysadmins who worked as they did 10 years are a fast disappearing species. One of the notable characteristics of sysadmin work in my view is that it is in a constant state of flux. As abstraction layers are added the sysadmin sits at or near the top layer (mostly) making stuff work. The work has changed but from my view it has generally become more interesting. I don't need to compile sendmail anymore[1] - I'll worry about making automated RT4 ticket creation work from Icinga instead. Yeah I can do it with email but there are better ways. Whether services are run locally, or hosted or whatever, there is a need to make stuff work and to keep it working and this is where the sysadmin has always sat - it's just the stuff that keeps changing. [1] I'll install Postfix from a package instead, or more likely, the entire build will be automated. Cheers, Rob -- Email: [email protected] Linux counter ID #16440 IRC: Solver (OFTC & Freenode) Web: http://www.pracops.com Director, Software in the Public Interest (http://spi-inc.org/) Information is a gas _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
