With the whole transition to libera.chat for irc and taking some
time off from work, I've taken to hanging out there a bit, and this
is a common thing I'm seeing in the #networking chat. I'm seeing a
lot of devs showing up in #networking asking for hosting/sysadmin
stuff lots, ala "how to make apache do x", or "how do I automate my
servers", which I find weird as that's sysadmin stuff normally (to
me). Oddly enough it's a pretty diverse crowd of folks that are
kinda hybrids, done networking, done sysadmin, some are php/web
devs, etc, but lots of system-centric stuff so it tends to work out
for info seekers. I suspect if I went into #sysadmin or like,
they'd know nothing of networking, but #networking tends to come
from diverse enough roots they do this stuff too, or did at one
point at least.
Moral is, there's a lot of crossover these days, and folks need to
know some dev, some sysadmin, and some networking. The line blurs,
but people can't just be like "well, I only do mssql or active
directory" anymore, they're replaceable with shell scripts. I've
done unix/linux, some dev, some dba, some windoze, everything
between along with a strong focus and experience in networking, and
it's paid dividends as I figure out what others don't as a result.
Comparing to the OSI model of networking, I work mostly layer 1-7
up, but most dev/app/sysadmins work layer 7 down, and really have no
idea below around layer 5 or so, much to their detriment. Best
these days to be well versed across the board to some extent. Take
a ccna class online, even if you don't get the cert, you'll probably
understand things a lot more to make your life easier.
-mb
On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 5:11 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Hi,
I've watched more than a few of NetworkChuck's videos. Here he is
on a
programmer's channel talking about programmers learning
networking.
I've always thought all web programmers have some Linux skills,
and
maybe that is not what he is talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlN-vMF13QY&t=0s
How does this work for hosting admin? Is there the same demand in
the
hosting admin niche? If so what exactly should one know and what
types
of jobs can they get?
He mentions Python - is that the programming language to know for
server
automation? He also mentioned Perl. I thought Perl was/is dead?
I'm a PHP developer and find a lot of hosting tools such as Plesk
and
ISPConfig are written in PHP and use MySQL.
Your Thoughts?
Thanks!!
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