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  • Wine used to involve a lot of black magic and trading configs to get things to work.

    With the right incantations, and some luck and a few DLL replacements, you could make things mostly work.

    3-D rendering was a shit show earlier on. You just didn’t even try. DirectX was everywhere and unusable. It was probably a slow march, but it felt like a sudden boom when 3D started working and suddenly 2/3 of your games/apps would work natively with a smaller config/spell.

    Nothing like the lengthy spell castings of early wine. I summon thee brood wars!





  • Ahhhh now you’re talking kubernetes.

    I mean you can do it with 2 machines and docker compose, but yeah.

    If you have a docker compose, you can just bring it to a new machine with the storage medium and hit “go” and it’ll go.

    That’ll probably be enough for a home setup and have a 1 hr downtime in a failure.

    If you want “always hot” kubernetes is basically “multi-node docker on cocaine “

    Damn, that addiction is strong lol.

    I’m happy to help where I can but it’s a FUCKTON of knowledge and setup to go far enough to kubernetes it.

    Docker-compose is 100x easier and gets you 95% of what you need.









  • I’ve done both, it’s just a rarity to have someone experienced enough in both to be able to cross the lines.

    Those are your gems and they’ll stick around as long as you pay them decently.

    Hard to find.

    Because the problem is that you need

    1. A developer
    2. A systems guy
    3. A social and great personality

    The job is hard to hire for because those 3 in combo is rare. Many developers and systems guys have prickly personalities or specialise in their favourite part of it.

    Devops spent have the option of prickly personalities because you have to deal with so many people outside your team that are prickly and that you have to sometimes give bad news to….

    Eventually they’ll all be mad at you for SOMETHING…… and you have to let it slide. You have to take their anger and not take it personally…. That’s hard for most people, let alone tech workers that grew up idolising Linus torvalds, or Sheldon cooper and their “I’m so smart that I don’t need to be nice” attitudes.


  • As a devops manager that’s been both, it depends on the group. Ideally a devops group has a few former devs and a few former systems guys.

    Honestly, the best devops teams have at least one guy that’s a liaison with IT who is primarily a systems guy but reports to both systems and devops. Why?

    It gets you priority IT tickets and access while systems trusts him to do it right. He’s like the crux of every good devops team. He’s an IT hire paid for by the devops team budget as an offering in exchange for priority tickets.

    But in general, you’re absolutely right.