A devops coworker found my blog and asked me how I host it, is it Kubernetes. I told him it's a dedicated server and he seemed amazed. And this was just a blog. It's real

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manquer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I heard the same story many times before.

Devops engineers did not know 101 of cable management or what even a cage nut is and being amazed to see a small office running 3 used dell servers bought dirt cheap, and shocked when it sounded like a air raid when they booted up, thought hot swapping was just magic.

It is always the case - earlier in the 80s-90s programmers were shaking their heads when people stopped learning assembly and trusted the compilers fully

This is nothing and hardly is shocking? new skills are learnt only if valuable otherwise one layer below seems like magic.

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InfraScaler 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does your coworker run a blog on k8s?

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dwedge 11 hours ago | parent [-]

None of them self host anything at all. It's like that skill was totally skipped. But they advise and consult on infra

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Hnrobert42 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, by the time you are hiring a dedicated infra role, you should be past the single VPS stage.

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dwedge 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My point is that none of these coworkers have ever been at that stage. He was surprised about me hosting something because he seems to think hosting is expensive and for companies. Straight in at the top end of k8s and microservices

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wookmaster 9 hours ago | parent [-]

There's plenty of people that got a CS degree and went to work and this is only a job for them, they have no interest outside of work. Unfortunately I'm not one of those people so I get off work troubleshooting issues to troubleshoot issues at home lol though there aren't that many just my choice to self host cameras through HomeKit sometimes falls apart somehow but im also squeezing every KB or RAM out of that beelink I can.

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dwedge 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Don't get me wrong I don't think a homelab is necessary, but I think people who have only done this in a big corporate environment are doing themselves a disservice - either a small company or a homelab can fix that itch, but like you say a lot of people don't have the interest

	▲	ryandrake 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's like a developer who went straight from knowing nothing about programming to JavaScript and never looked back. They missed C, they missed assembly, they missed cycle counting, they missed knowing what your memory footprint is at all times in your application, they missed keeping your inner loops tight and in the cache... It's not just "oh this person doesn't have a nerdy hobby." These are real skill holes in [many] developers' backgrounds, just like knowing how to host something on bare metal+OS is a real skill hole for some devops people.

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