Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:04:26 -0400 From: Makketron <makketronics@gmail.com> To: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@shaneware.biz> Cc: Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Is the IT Crowd re-inventing Unix with Virtualization, Docker and Microservices? Message-ID: <CACAG1go-_=H4uD=-_vx929-v_pA%2BxPiMDGhqQ%2Bx%2BuObx3qjqRA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6082af1c-1ea4-7180-9621-cc539e8131b2@ShaneWare.Biz> References: <CAHieY7SsnUAvjbWD00LwWScNy8E3rK6vP0nfTyihWJoSBhW1RA@mail.gmail.com> <6082af1c-1ea4-7180-9621-cc539e8131b2@ShaneWare.Biz>
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This is exactly why people get puzzled when they see a person in the team making a solution over a weekend, with no cost, instead of weeks. The irony is, they consider it a temporary solution, a hack so to speak, until fancier tools are used. Even funnier, when the switch happens, the tools tend to have higher downtime than a simple UNIX solution. On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 12:16 AM Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@shaneware.biz> wrote: > On 12/9/18 4:40 am, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I guess it's time for another food for thought email of like-minded > > FreeBSDers, as I am coming to a new conclusion about this whole > enterprise > > crap world of which I am so evermore fed up of... > > > > Oh yeah, that's right, high-level guys are too expensive? really? > compared > > to what? to the dozens and dozens of mediocre "coders", "devops", > > "techops"and whatever other "ops". Yeah, we are way more expensive but we > > are 50:1, maybe 100:1 compared the median in the "enterprise" side of > > things. > > Good tech guys who know what to do don't use enough new fancy tech. It's > all about the buzzwords, the more your product uses the more money you > get to build it. The more layers, the more complex, the more people dumb > CEOs need to pay to setup and maintain it, but it has to be using the > newest, flashiest tech. If you have used the stuff before you need to go > and make a new one or two for the next project. One good guy can't > support an enterprise, it needs to be a group of dimwits that band > together and cover each others f*ups to support an enterprise. > > I recall the Y2K bug, a well known telco employed about 80 people to > walk around to every desktop computer and manually run some script off a > server that checked installed programs and updated each one. > > Well this telco has software installed on every desktop that allowed one > person to access every machine in the country, show reports of software > and versions installed, install, update or remotely control the GUI > desktop. The team I was on completed our two months work the first week, > so we got to use this to manually do the stupid steps on machines in > other states, after someone there had walked around to turn machines on. > > It was all about one guy coming up with something that sounded complex > enough that the CEO can't understand but had enough buzzwords and parts > that it must be the solution to this dreaded Y2K problem. > > > -- > FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing > > Shane Ambler > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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