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You seem to need to study programming before being able to do real DevOps. nix is kinda advanced in this sense even if it is has a small language. In my experience, very few ops are able coders.



I agree with this.

Interestingly, earlier in my career, most of the developers I worked with were also capable at system administration, and could easily fill that role if needed.

The sysadmins during that time were quite capable, but had no desire, or an admitted lack of ability for a development role.

It is an interesting phenomena to observe.


Given their background I think they meant nix as Linux/Unix and not Nix the programming language/package manager.

Despite its clear fit with the current hotness of immutable systems and functional programming, I don't think I've seen anyone in for-profit industry on a Nix/NixOps stack.


Yeah I meant Linux/Unix. The asterisk turned everything italic so I just left it out.




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