We're gonna learn a bunch more, then start trying to get a job as a sysadmin cos despite our current irritance this is really fun
@pnathan Bleh.
Spose we could do that too haha
its actually a lot of fun imo. automating sysadmin stuff is very tasty. being able to spin up and configure 100 new servers as fast as AWS can boot them is its own thrill.
on the bright side:
once you put devops on your resume it's like the recruiters won't stop emailing you. Also the salaries are competitive with SWE on the West Coast.
@pnathan Oh neat.
Prolly gonna look into that then tbh
@spiderrobotpig @pnathan yeah devops is the thing now!
i've worn all 3 hats and devops might be my fave?
@spiderrobotpig @pnathan running my instance is me getting to do all the stupid shit i've wanted to do when i was doing devops stuff but been unable to due to professionalism
hahaha! I may rouse my bum and build a complete config management setup in haskell or ocaml sometime, then deploy it on my (1) one server for lulz. no more errors from strings being mistyped and caught only at deploy time!
@pnathan @spiderrobotpig real talk tho... not getting fucked over by typos is one of the thing i really like about using AWS services extensively
@spiderrobotpig @bea how so? which service? :)
@bea @spiderrobotpig devops definitely is my favorite from a technology standpoint, you can go very deep down to kernel hacking with and massive fleet deploys - or you can be the sysadmin/ec2/build wrangler at a startup.
I've moved to different things for a combination of reasons, but I really liked it.
@spiderrobotpig FWIW sysadmin jobs are being eaten by coding. The new hotness is devops: someone who can *both* sysadmin and code. Chef.io is an example of a company oriented around devops. (Also they are a really cool company)