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		mixmastamyk on April 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The End of Windows And many will eventually be outsourced. In fact, systems administration as a profession is on the downswing due to the cloud. This site itself is largely focused on "disrupting" inefficiency with automation.

vetinari on April 3, 2018 [–]

Not only due to cloud; even if you have local bunch of immutable OS instances like CoreOS or RHEL atomic running containers, you don't need a big staff babysitting server OSes.

mixmastamyk on April 3, 2018 | [–]

Yes, conflated cloud and containers in my head when writing that comment.

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