Where's all the good operations people at nowadays?
Have worked with numerous cloud native engineers that do not have good foundational knowledge.
Have worked with numerous cloud native engineers that do not have good foundational knowledge.
Still in the same place they were 20 years ago. They’ve just been lost in the swamp of their peers that know nothing.
That's the problem. Yes, I'm the old man yelling at cloud, but indeed 'kids this days' don't know Linux, they know how to provision things from Terraform. In fact it feels like logging in via ssh and checking process with with `strace` is a lost art. Checking PCAP? That's a black magic!
No, I want to hire the grumpy, cynical greybeards, because they know their fundamentals, and they're immune to shiny bullshit.
There's no substitute for skill and experience, despite what the modern tech discourse says. "Anyone can program!" And yet, we have threads like this, where we find out, SHOCKER, that the best codebases are the ones maintained by like... four senior developers, half of whom contributed to several Internet RFCs, and half of whom used to work at Bell Labs.
I feel like we are through the looking glass.
I’m told this is gatekeeping. Yes, and…? I’ve always found it amusing that I see little to no anger being directed at kernel devs for their gatekeeping. Almost as if deep down, people know that they shouldn’t be fucking with the thing that runs the world unless they are actually good at it. Or maybe they’re just afraid of Torvalds.
You need to include checks when writing them so they actually are idempotent, just like with bash script, and they happily leak idempotency-breaking details like "restarting a service" works only if a) service currently runs b) because "restart" is a command, not expected state of "the service was restarted and is now running
It’s been a long time since I’ve had to do those things, so yes it’s becoming a lost art to me. However, on the rare occasion I need this sort of insight I do fine with JIT research.