alt Hacker NewsContinuing the never ending trend of Sys Admins/DevOps/SRE job title holders with skills in specific tools rather than foundational skills always wondering why they are out of a job every 5 years.
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tayo42 • yesterday at 4:54 PM
That's reinforced by how hiring is done though. I rarely if ever run into companies that hire for fundamentals. Only the Google tier of companies do that.
spankalee • yesterday at 4:34 PM
You have no idea what you're talking about if that's what you think SREs are.
That’s what companies hire for. I’ve learned those skills and no one ever really wants them.
If you build tools with that context, they’ll have to replace you with someone that has that context. There’s few of them, and they’re expensive.
It’s easier to hire folks that should be interns or juniors that know that one tool, and then replace the whole department every decade.
It’s why everything is YAML now, despite it being horribly verbose and clunky. Can’t have our people needing to know how load balancing works, just add another 95 lines of YAML boilerplate so they don’t need to learn 5 lines of nginx config.