Re:The creeping IT apocalypse
by Ruxbin1986 on Thursday January 17, 2019 @10:50PM
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Yes, this is old as time but it's just now we've starting eating into positions that with a moderate education investment you could have a decent technical career.
Now that isn't the case. The traditional system admin will need to adapt, but adaption looks like going back to school for software development.
Comparing to factories shutting down is hyperbolic. It think what we’re about to see is more in line with a a job market that rewards things other than specific application knowledge.
However, I can’t say much in defense of the mid-level IT Pro because just this past month I went from considering a server running an OS and MySQL db somewhere that someone would have to maintaine into using AWS DynamoDB with API Gateway with automated calls to Lambda functions - I can completely get rid of our server and paying a mid level IT Pro to maintain it. For our usage it’ll be practically free now, where I feel like I would have been paying a lot of “enterprise IT” overhead before.
That doesn’t mean that guy is going to starve, he will have to either adapt as factory workers have or be valuable in a different way than “I’m good at something people don’t really need anymore”. This is as old as time.