On Wed, 5 May 2010, John Jasen wrote: > Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think the age of the generalist systems > administrator is pretty much dead, at least in organizations of > sufficient size or complexity.
The impression I get is that for large organisations you get "platforms" run by smaller teams. I would hope there aren't many places where "root" access to a machine is given by hundreds of people. I guess the web (almost by definition) gets more expose but I would almost guess things are going the other way. These days you have Top100 websites run by just a handful of people. Facebook had 20 Ops people 2 years ago [1] , Youtube 2 when it was doing 100m videos/day [2], Digg had 3 Sysadmins [3] . You can't have rigid specialists in tiny teams. Some more examples at: http://highscalability.com/blog/category/example YMMV of course. [1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2008/9/3/some-facebook-secrets-to-better-operations.html [2] http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture [3] http://highscalability.com/scaling-digg-and-other-web-applications -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
