[hmrr]

I suspect it’s dying slowly. All the functional sysadmin stuff is being rolled into devops and cloud operations these days and all the old school folk, me included, are being pushed into management. It’s sad really as it’s part of my life I really enjoyed.

[op00to]

Sysadmins taking about how the industry is evolving always reminds me of an auto mechanic complaining that cars don't need regular "tuneups" anymore.

[jpgvm]

system administration hasn't died though it's just using more complex/sophisticated tooling than existed in the past and requires more development chops. Resulting in new names for the roles and the old hangouts becoming less relevant as they were arranged topically around technologies that are falling out of use primarily (atleast in the case of IRC channels etc). There isn't really a new home for these communities outside of stuff like the Apache and Kubernetes Slack instances which is very sad.