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by mattlondon
1025 days ago
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I've heard of the big-cos having to use bonafide robots for doing manual tasks in a data center like replacing broken drives or swapping tapes etc. I think there is still a bunch of manual tasks to be done. That said I have no idea. When I worked (many many many many years ago) in a small DC that is perhaps the size of a 2bed apartment we had 4 guys scurrying about doing stuff (hands-on-keyboard, routing cables, replacing hardware etc). This was way before Docker & Kubernetes et al - physical iron and all that. I would assume that in modern DC ops you could run a football field sized DC with less than 10 people due to automation. But that said if part of the actual infrastructure like power or cooling fails, you need to have the right skill-set in place. If the cooler's failed and couldn't just be turned off and on again, we would have been out of luck in my old DC days and would need to call someone in and just hope the servers didn't fry in the meantime. Sounds like a similar deal here. |
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