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by heydonovan
2665 days ago
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From my experience, the hardcore Unix folks should stick to jobs that highlights that type of knowledge. If you join an AWS shop, you're never going to dig into low level things like the proc filesystem, and the arcane knowledge of knowing every single tool just isn't used. I've gone from remoting into machines on the daily, to not using SSH for almost a year now. Just depends on the job I suppose. Went from having knowledge of all the different signals, and getting really good at tcpdump/gdb, to just writing Terraform/CloudFormation scripts, and nuking an instance from orbit if there were any issues with it. Such a different workflow. |
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Grey-haired Linux folks who've hammered on complex, changing, sometimes esoteric systems in different companies with unique challenges COMBINED with having to have learned a programming language, to view these people as obsolete is an ultimate folly of youth here in IT.
To suggest that it's all different now, your Shell/Perl/Webserver/database/caching/networking experience somehow has nothing on Python/Terraform/AWS/Docker really shows inexperience of hiring managers.
I learned both, and I can tell you AWS+someyaml+Python are MUCH easier than any of the stuff I listed above. Yet, there's a new generation of hiring managers that believes otherwise.
Today at work I had to explain absolutely basic DNS to someone. I dunno, call me skeptical about this new paradigm business. The paradigms look awfully familiar.