{"id":1027,"date":"2008-10-23T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/interesting-links-for-october-23rd\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:00:48","slug":"interesting-links-for-october-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/interesting-links-for-october-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links for October 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for October 23rd:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gartner.com\/lydia_leong\/2008\/09\/15\/the-cloud-skills-shift\/\">The Cloud skills shift<\/a> &#8211; 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&rsquo;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 &ldquo;I can wrangle boxes&rdquo; declines precipitously.\n<p>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for October 23rd: The Cloud skills shift &#8211; 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&rsquo;s not necessarily more efficient to automate a task than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[989,926,600,604,936,601,603,602],"class_list":{"0":"post-1027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-bsm","8":"tag-business-service-management","9":"tag-delicious","10":"tag-itmanagement","11":"tag-itsm","12":"tag-links","13":"tag-read","14":"tag-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}