the.com/sysadmin
the person who keeps the servers alive so nobody has to think about servers.
means a systems administrator maintains, configures, and troubleshoots the computers, networks, and software an organization runs on.
from emerged with mainframe computing in the 1960s-70s, when someone had to babysit the machine that ran everything else; the job scaled up with unix, then exploded with the internet and data centers.
job security mythcloud was supposed to kill this role, didn't
unofficial mottoit's always dns
appreciation daylast friday of july, real holiday
typical superpowerroot access to everything, trusts nothing
for instance
margaret hamilton — led software engineering for apollo, coined the term itself
google sre team — turned sysadmin into a discipline with error budgets, 2003 onward