[crisper78]

Awesome! Kudos for owning your own data and infra!

I don't think systems administration is a lost art, people just wanted to do things easier for less money and staff, and no one can blame them or the industry as a whole. The art is still right there, linux hasn't changed that much in 20+ years, I still have my first discs. It also takes some experience to "feel" your way through systems administration problems, working from the bottom up of course, feeling like its a network problem still has a high rate of success when troubleshooting for me!

I try everyday to teach some of these skills to people I work with, I just call it devops, or SRE, or some cyber cloud support position someone makes up, they are all systems admins/engineers to me still. I enjoy watching people learn and apply that knowledge to future problems, getting to the root cause or close to it, and the satisfaction that comes from fixing the issue from start to finish on your own, looking things up is not cheating in systems administration!