Links that I have found interesting for October 23rd:
- The Cloud skills shift – The routine drudgery of IT Operations is going to get automated away, bit by bit. Right now, many enterprises still operate at a scale and lack of standardization that means that it’s not necessarily more efficient to automate a task than simply do it manually. In the cloud model, the balance tips to the automation side, and the basic value of “I can wrangle boxes” declines precipitously.
My advice to sysadmins: If you are not fluent in a scripting language, and/or not capable of writing structured, readable, maintainable, non-hackish code, now is the time to learn.