[theodric]

> ancient skills https://youtu.be/ZtYU87QNjPw?&t=10

It baffles me that my career trajectory somehow managed to insulate me from ever having to deal with the cloud, while such esoteric skills as swapping a hot swap disk or racking and cabling a new blade chassis are apparently on the order of finding a COBOL developer now. Really?

I can promise you that large financial institutions still have datacenters. Many, many, many datacenters!

[direwolf20]

we had two racks in our office of mostly developers. If you have an office you already have a rack for switches and patch panels. Adding a few servers is obvious.

Software development isn't a typical SME however. Mike's Fish and Chips will not buy a server and that's fine.