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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 13, 2024

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I'm looking at it from the opposite perspective of someone who's on the ops side that has to look at resumes and gives interviews, but I would definitely consider 10 years of development experience as a plus for a sysadmin; to me that's someone that would be much more comfortable than your average sysadmin with scripting, and who will get infrastructure-as-code much more readily.

I work with a lot of devs and there's a lot of things that sysadmin experience can bring to development. There's a lot of debugging steps that your experience can have you breeze through: connectivity issues, permission issues, policy issues, etc...