[ale] What are your thoughts on system transparency?

[David Ritchie]

I am personally skeptical of the impending death of system administration.

After all, what happens when redeploying doesn't fix the issue? You still
have to have
someone that understands the architecture to lay hands on it at 2 AM to put
it right again.

Best Regards,
David Ritchie


On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 2:54 PM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> While I personally like it, a lot of sysadmin jobs are going away. It's
> easy to click a few buttons and spin up a new cloud instance. Why
> trouble-shoot something when you can just destroy it and start over?
>
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> On 2/27/24 12:02, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I define system transparency as a system or subsystem with accessible
> > test points and adjustments AND the ability to see its sub components
> > and how they connect to each other. What are your thoughts on system
> > transparency?
> >
> > Obviously, with my core competency and core business being
> > troubleshooting, I value transparency hugely. I have a feeling that my
> > viewpoint isn't universal, given how much software (and hardware and
> > machines) are not transparent (they're translucent at best, and often
> > opaque black boxes). Obviously, when the system is operating as
> > designed and desired, a black box is less intrusive than something with
> > exposed test points and adjustments and seemingly extraneous messages.
> >
> > So what do you think?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > SteveT
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