My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by magicbuzz on Saturday August 18, 2018 @07:10AM (#17787959)

Is it reasonable to expect a web developer to be able to configure nginx? To be honest, I guess maybe not. But the person in question was maintaining how https slowed all sites down and so should be avoided. When I questioned him about the new handshaking in TLS1.3, it became evident he didn’t know what I was referring to.

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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by user5994461 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @07:19AM (#17787998)

If you can't apt-get install nginx and copy a basic configuration from the internet, I have bad news for you.

Tuning performance and setting up logging is another matter.

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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by walshemj on Saturday August 18, 2018 @07:19AM (#17787997)

Compared to the habit of including huge gobs of javascript and unoptimised images on "modern" web sites the impact of https is nugatory.

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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by hrcxxx on Saturday August 18, 2018 @07:19AM (#17787995)

DevOps engineer will configure docker\tls\nginx and all that stuff

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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by quietbritishjim on Saturday August 18, 2018 @08:45AM (#17788212)

Surely you just means "ops"? I thought the point of someone being "DevOps" is that the developer also does operations, so it would be their own problem. I wonder if that word has become so diluted that its lost the reason that it came into existence in the first place.

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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by rmwaite on Saturday August 18, 2018 @11:35AM (#17788939)

Devops is more about dev working with ops and vice versa instead of siloing. That necessarily ends with some crossover of skills but it isn’t strictly necessary

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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by Pokepokalypse on Saturday August 18, 2018 @06:12PM (#17791095)

During my brief time in Devops, I have learned that; if you're getting paged at 3am from your server being DDoS-ed, you're not going to be very effective as a developer . . .

Yes: it helps the developer to learn to code much more defensively - which is a very good thing. But then, that developer has no time to code. Defensively, or otherwise.

(depending on the environment, and management's willingness to invest in infrastructure - yeah, you can really get bogged down in this stuff).

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