What decade are you from? No startups are hiring sysadmins to do any kind of work anymore. They're hiring "dev-ops" people, which seems to mean "Amateur $popularLanguage developer that deployed on AWS this one time."
That's the whole problem with the dev-ops ecosystem. None of these dev-ops people seem to have any ops experience.
Then maybe people should be willing to work for more grown-up businesses.
HN tends to get a distorted view of what's important in the tech industry. The tech industry is way, way, way bigger than startups, and there are still plenty of companies that recognize the value of good sysadmins.
Let the startups learn their lesson in their own time.
Exactly. Successful and profitable are not mutually exclusive with "secure" or "well-architected". At least until those last two come to bite you later and start eating into your profits.
It should be a huge cautionary tale for any big organization that doesn't have good internal security, but unfortunately this isn't the first such case in history, and it almost certainly won't be the last.
But that doesn't mean there aren't other smart businesses out there.
Thanks for painting all of us that do "devops" with a wide brush. If you're a dev shall we enumerate all of the XSS and SQL injection holes you've added to products over your career?
So well, tried, but troll does not work.
And startup are made by "devops" kind of business men that don't care about computing correctly cost vs price because it is so XXth century.