> It's not that sysadmins are going to disappear, it's just that with IaaS and the automation tooling that's been developed in the past decade teams don't need to be nearly as large. The role has also changed.
The sysadmin's role is to automate themselves out of a job: you should not need to do anything twice.
For some reason, the job never disappears and new stuff keeps coming along.
(I do know one guy who successfully automated most of this job. He got bored and got a new job.)
The sysadmin's role is to automate themselves out of a job: you should not need to do anything twice.
For some reason, the job never disappears and new stuff keeps coming along.
(I do know one guy who successfully automated most of this job. He got bored and got a new job.)