Comments on: Learning to cook http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/01/26/learning-to-cook/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:19:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jtimberman http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/01/26/learning-to-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-1179 jtimberman Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:20:19 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=282#comment-1179 "Is it that, or is this a shift in being an SA will mean?" I've found that being a system administrator keeps me out of being a programmer, a discipline I wasn't particularly well suited for. Since working on Chef (and also our legacy Puppet stuff), I learned that the problem was I didn't want to be an application programmer. Business logic, databases full of customer tables, GUI's, that sort of thing. Even then, this isn't programming, it really is system engineering, which *is* the next step in the evolution of a system administrator. “Is it that, or is this a shift in being an SA will mean?”

I’ve found that being a system administrator keeps me out of being a programmer, a discipline I wasn’t particularly well suited for.

Since working on Chef (and also our legacy Puppet stuff), I learned that the problem was I didn’t want to be an application programmer. Business logic, databases full of customer tables, GUI’s, that sort of thing.

Even then, this isn’t programming, it really is system engineering, which *is* the next step in the evolution of a system administrator.

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