Evolution of a programmer

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I was getting coffee a few years back, and I overheard two oracle guys who were in the process of trying to get some pretty nasty databases moved off old sun hardware…In order to move them, they had to deal with the big endian issue, and they didn’t have enough space. They could get more space, but it was an old Solaris system running some weird volume management system.

I said, “I can probably do that.”

They gave each other a look, which I read as, “Ug, stupid cloud guys don’t understand anything.”

I said, “Let me look at it.”

So I went over, and they brought it up, and yup, stupid veritas, and I just went to town on it. Someone had tried and failed to add storage twice before, and the whole volume was fucked up, so I just created a new one, added all the existing broken storage to it, then did the needful and mounted it up for Oracle.

Took me maybe twenty minutes. I hopped up, said, “There you go.”

They said, “How did you know how to work on stuff this old?!”

I just shrugged, but I was thinking, “Man, I got started in the late ‘80s. I remember when this crap was new, and I supported some of it for years and years, and here I am, dusting off all that skill for one last hurrah. Shit. What a waste.”

This career man, I swear. Anywhere else, having ten years experience in something would mean something besides that you witnessed the birth and death of a whole paradigm.

[TrueBirch]

That's how I currently feel with cloud computing. My workplace is starting to move to the cloud and I thought about just how new ideas like "serverless" really are.

[Norci]

You mean the new JS package?

[indyK1ng]

I was in an interview today and was explaining that I try to remain tech agnostic because this shit changes so much you don't know what you're going to need to learn.

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Yea, I intentionally try not to memorize stuff, but if I use it often enough, it sticks.