When I worked as a professional sys-admin, I sincerely didn't understand why sys-admins were paid so well.
I remember thinking that anyone could do what I'm doing, and I was surprised at how I knew programmers making less than I did.
Today, having hired devops and re-training myself to do the work, I realize why sys-admins/devops are paid well.
Firstly, it's a niche industry. While there are many programmers available, there are fewer people who understand the principles of high quality system administration.
Secondly, most people who are trained in this are already working or in high demand. Demand drives pay.
Thirdly, it's a changing field that moves- in some ways- faster than software.
It's easy to find someone who think they know devops because they run their own Linux laptop, but someone who really knows both the tools and the methodology of system administration is actually quite rare.
I am looking for a new job. Elixir/erlang SWE and/or ops/SRE related. Size of the company does not matter. I have some ethical rules (gambling, blockchain and probably most AI company,...). I only work remotely from France. Yes I would prefer a FTE french contract, but I can do self employed contracts.
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Always happy to see new MLOps books! The DevOps for Data Science is a new book by Alex K Gold. As the name implies, the book focuses on topics related to DevOps for data scientists. This includes the following:
✅ Command line
✅ Working with Linux systems
✅ Docker
✅ Scaling resources
✅ Network, domains, DNS, SSL, etc.
✅ Authentication
"We added a “Forged on” date to fastfetch since uptime doesn’t really make much sense anymore so we surface the date you installed your system. Now you can flex your longevity. 😈"
Doe je iets met #opensource, #openstandards of #opensystems dan moet je erbij zijn. In november heb je weer een kans, want we organiseren 2x
p/jr een conferentie.
We zijn een vereniging, dus je kan lid worden! Zie: https://nluug.nl
#HashiCorp's Boundary 0.16 is here with an update that simplifies connecting to target infrastructure, has better search and filtering, and adds MinIO compatibility.
Here’s one of the many reasons why I stick to simple, replicable, and quickly restorable setups. When you don't have control over your data or rely solely on a specific service, everything could go wrong in an instant.
The #DevOpsDays Montréal 2024 people have spoken: the next iteration of DevOps is “Cloud Gardening”! ☁️🪴
“Beyond Platform Engineering: Engineering the Past, Hacking the Present, Transforming the Future”, a Gen AI-cat heavy talk by @adrianamvillela & @ataner!
Lost a half day of work because the GitLab runner suddenly switched to sh instead of bash, and some obscure script lines in the YAML failed because of that. Yay for GitLab and having to do it all yourself.
Final hours to Catch the Dive into #DevOps#HumbleBundle from @nostarch before it's gone!
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