Chris Gardner says, “In a past life I was a system administrator, or “sysadmin”. I enjoyed it, but even in those halcyon days of remoting into servers and driving to the office at 2 AM (hoping the server room wasn’t on fire), I knew I had a limited shelf life. It wasn’t until years later that I fully understood why:

Administrators are babysitters. The era of tech babysitters is over.
In the age of the customer, admins need to be just as dynamic as their developer brethren. That means a hard shift to software-defined infrastructure. It also means using the same tools and processes that accelerate business technology.
In other words, you need to become a developer”.

Sysadmins: You’re All Developers Now

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