<div dir="ltr">I was told that if I wasn't in Management by the time I was in my forty that IT companies would think I wasn't a good engineer, and I almost bought that. At 56, I am a team lead, and it SUX!!! I am not a cat herder, and I find it funny that people will lie to your face, my kids do a better job at lying than the people I manage. I also hate that, I have to make sure we are on time and on task. <div><br></div><div>So, when things started going to Cloud, I was worried that Sys. Admin were a dying breed, kinda like what Dave Richie was talking about because of the install of a Sys. Admin, you need either DevOps or a Full Stack Engineer, but with the way AI is coming up, I see those going away. The other thing I am seeing is that datacenter engineering positions are coming back as many are moving back from the cloud to on perm because cloud costs are like rolling a D20, where on perm is a steady pricing guide. The other thing I am seeing, so many of the young tech only study for the cert and can't do basic troubleshooting or fixes. A lot of my time as a team lead is getting on a call, going through dmesg, df, journalctl, and reading the error. When you point out a simple fix, here's how to do it. They are looking at me like I created fire. I am not kidding. Then when I ask how I know that, I telling, I have notebooks of notes from the years where is I seen something like that, I wrote down like my peers of the time took me too, in case it happens again. I have also seen companies that have laid me off to get three twenty something for my salary, have to rehire over and over because the kids couldn't understand how I manage a small group of systems, networking, and storage. ( I mean small it was 325 devices when I was laid off ). One of them told the company it was impossible to take care of all those by themselves. I laugh and stroke my grey beard that I have earned. You can be either grass or bamboo in your career, I choose grass, so that I can bend with the wind. Because sometimes in IT, it is a hurricane. <br><br>OS are changing, RHEL used to be great but with each new release it's becoming a microos, a JeOS so they can run containers. Hard drivers are missing. I see it with SuSE, they have a MicroOS. </div><div><br></div><div>I am watching what happens because the whole AI worries me because I have a 12 year old daughter who is learning to code, she wants to design games. I don't want to tell her that when she is in college, that skill set might be done by machine. <br><br>I still have 15 years before I can retire, despite having kids late in life, but I know I will be active. </div><div><br></div><div>I am a jack of all trades and master of none. One thing I started lately so that I can have a piece of mind, Youtube video. I am playing with a Small Board Computer, learning the in's and out's, and I am trying to teach others. If it weren't for User Group, I wouldn't have the means to meet others. If it weren't BBS, I wouldn't have the means to ask questions and learn. The internet is because a weapon, so I will do what I can to help, teach. Steve Litt, all I can say is share, as some has state, we thought we didn't need Cobol or Fortran Programmers, but we still do. We might not need a lot of Sys Admin, but will always need a few, those that can be Jack of all trades are the one that will last. <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 7:22 AM Leam Hall via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Well, let's take Ed and Steve's notes together.<br>
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What I would like to see, though I don't have the brains to do it myself, is a secure OS (written in Rust? <a href="https://os.phil-opp.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://os.phil-opp.com/</a> ) with a Linux-ish ABI. That lets a lot of existing software easier to port over, but with increased security. Steve brings up a good point that I haven't given a lot of thought to, and that's increased visibility. So let's design the OS with that in mind.<br>
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Then the issue becomes all of the other stuff. The OS is different than the distribution, and we need to build the OS culture to have the same level of security and visibility for all the other software that goes on it. Of course, we also need to look at the stuff *under* the OS, there seems to be a lot of hardware and driver options for vulnerabilities.<br>
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A more transparent and secure system is greatly needed, but I'm not aware of a community that is doing it.<br>
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On 2/28/24 05:22, Ed Cashin via Ale wrote:<br>
> Yes, I think that pain drives change. High-profile attacks on important<br>
> computer systems are making more people understand that complex dependency<br>
> chains that nobody can audit is highly problematic. (A real audit is often<br>
> possible but impractical because of system complexity.)<br>
> <br>
> There certainly appears to be a window of opportunity starting to appear<br>
> for a charismatic leader or movement to introduce an alternative that is<br>
> transparent and simple enough to audit. I don't know whether anything will<br>
> take advantage of that opportunity. The pain would have to be great enough<br>
> to spur people to abandon current behavior, and the solution would have to<br>
> be attractive enough.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:18 PM Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> Leam Hall via Ale said on Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:54:21 -0600<br>
>><br>
>>> While I personally like it, a lot of sysadmin jobs are going away.<br>
>>> It's easy to click a few buttons and spin up a new cloud instance. Why<br>
>>> trouble-shoot something when you can just destroy it and start over?<br>
>><br>
>> I see your point. Why waste time. The only thing is, what if you spin<br>
>> up your new cloud instance and get the same symptom? Nowww you have to<br>
>> troubleshoot, so the question is, in this situation where you must<br>
>> troubleshoot, what do you think of system transparency (a system or<br>
>> subsystem with accessible test points and adjustments AND the ability<br>
>> to see its sub components and how they connect to each other)?<br>
>><br>
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