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by jsz0 1527 days ago
I've been saying this for a while but I think we're about to see a ton of tech jobs disappear or see dramatically lower wages. With modern DevOps practices, managed services, etc I just don't see how a lot of these job roles can continue to exist. One of the reasons I got out of network engineering was I realized one day a decent algorithm would be able do 95% of my job better than I could.
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andrewjl 1526 days ago
There's always going to be a need to adapt generic managed services to fit into a particular business domain or organization. I think asserting these jobs will disappear is susceptible to the lump of labor fallacy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy)

If this trend continues the more likely outcome is these roles will evolve. Deep technical understanding will still be required along with a need to spend more time in dialogue with these systems users. If anything it'll cause wages to dramatically skyrocket because relatively fewer have the capacity to perform both of those effectively.

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guilhas 1527 days ago
I don't see this

Where I work we have everything in Azure and Azure devops, but most developers don't care for configuring the cloud objects, or deployment pipelines, or deployment life cycle...

In practice the complexity is the same for small/medium companies for setting up, maybe easier for long term maintenance, even if not as reliable. But because things keep so much changing we always need the same people available

Although a lot of tech companies are somehow hiring at the moment. Not sure if investment fund money. So it seems that at some point there will have to happen a tech companies crunch

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BOOSTERHIDROGEN 1526 days ago
Any books references about deployment life cycle? Thanks.
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burntoutfire 1527 days ago
Currently, somehow people who can wrap their heads around the "modern devops practices" command the highest wages, not the lowest.

In my opinion, the promises of devops and other automation are largely overblown, and these concepts are just replacing one set of problems with another - at least in software development. In hosting/provisioning, I agree that cloud was a game changer and for example renting a cluster of DynamoDB is massively simpler than running your own Cassandra.

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BOOSTERHIDROGEN 1527 days ago
Mind sharing the details about network engineering replaced by ?
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