[rhizome]

Build, setting up, and tuning servers is one of the most fun parts of running a service.

As someone who has worked in this space, I can tell you that the skills simply do not exist. They don't hire for them, because they all ("all") use outsourced hosting and deployment frameworks that insulate them from these things.

[rfnslyr]

It's kind of sad really. I'd love to have a big office with a dedicated center to some really awesome equipment. It's like a work of art that you crafted yourself, right up to the cable management!

[bandy]

It's loads of fun, especially when you have dedicated chillers and sufficient power for everything. However, as you come to the realization that your C-level execs negotiated forever contracts for keeping data and servers spinning with no common outage windows, consolidation/virtualization becomes difficult and eventually the reality distortion field collapses and you're out on the streets with everyone blaming you for the failure, despite your ability to run modern services with stone knives and bearskins.

Plus, you don't have that all-important "Cloud" buzzword for them to throw around!