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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 41 points 9 months ago

Achievement unlocked: management

[-] Corbin@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago

Nailed it. I think about this a lot: a sysadmin is basically a manager of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of computers. But management is a poor way of orchestrating human labor; small teams usually operate better without management. So, is there a better way to administer computer systems as well?

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 months ago

That's a really interesting question, I don't know what that might look like.

As a biochemist, my brain naturally goes to the different hierarchical levels of increasing complexity in life. Like how eukaryotic amoebas are freed from some of the challenges that constrain bacteria (mitochondria really are awesome), and how similarly, the complexity ceiling is much higher for multicellular life than unicellular life.

I just think a systems view of stuff is neat, and it's cool to see how modularisation, coupling and specialisation work together

[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

Since computers, unlike humans, lack intuition, I doubt that computers could organise themselves. So there probably always has to be a sysadmin, even if the sysadmin is a computer themself.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Span of control is always an issue. There's a reason why it varies heavily from team/org.

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