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DevOps vs. systems administration

Capgemini

Most people are aware of the traditional role of a system administrator. System Administrators provide the computing environment and access to the engineers, enabling them to do their job and move on to the next request. In the System Administrator model, there is a clear separation of duties between IT and Engineering.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? What’s the state of those systems? If so, will you also have your own account system? Are users otherwise grouped by the system, maybe by background (employer, university) or preferences?

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Leveling Up: Skill Building for Systems Administrators

taos

Engage the source: read the source code; review the release notes; review outstanding bugs I appreciate all of these, and all are exercises for any level of skill. Doing so follows the adage of ‘practice makes perfect.’

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Leveling Up: Skill Building for Systems Administrators

taos

Engage the source: read the source code; review the release notes; review outstanding bugs. Survey blog posts/conference presentations for overviews and specific pointers. Install the software into a test environment; play with it there. I appreciate all of these, and all are exercises for any level of skill.

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4 ways upskilling and reskilling can fill hard-to-hire positions

CIO

A role to separate server trusted connectivity could be an existing enterprise architect or Linux/Windows system administrator. Both have an understanding of your internal systems and the technical expertise to properly reconfigure how your servers and other devices are technically connected.

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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO

A simple Google search can reveal that some of the major airlines with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure had customer data stolen due to security breaches. This is also due to the demographics of airline passengers, who are likely to be affluent enough to travel with platinum credit cards at their disposal. Well not exactly.

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Enhancing the employee experience

Xebia

The impact of system simplicity on autonomy Simplicity in the systems that employees use during work can have a positive influence on the sense of autonomy. When systems and tools are user-friendly, employees have more control over their work processes and can readily make decisions on how to organize and carry out their tasks.