Not OC: Just found this on my old hard drive while grabbing some other stuff.
As a sysadmin, the sysadmin parts are 100% true
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the illustration of the devs with 500 years of xp was missing hahaha
I kinda want an "End Users" one, too (already know what their "Sysadmins" would be).
Where's my network admins at?
Comprehended under sysadmin because the attitude is the same just the devices are a bit different.
I prefer that when done properly a network admin is simply forgotten about.
I feel like this one really deserves to be in there
That's just how everyone sees the client
How I see the DBAs
this is how i see other sysadmins when they explain their 30yr old bash script that does everything.
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LOL. I'm assuming that would be how everyone but the project managers see project managers?
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I sense a theme, when it comes to the sysadmins.
Having been a sysadmin you would be surprised at both the amount of times I had to explain why we couldn't just put an unprotected endpoint outside the firewall and also how much alcohol I drank to cope with the former.
It is like being builder to architects that think you can have a second story just floating in midair. I am baffled by how ignorant of the basics of infrastructure many developers are.
Obviously I don't expect a website dev to know the details of like iptables configs for load balancing with failover or whatever. Or even be terribly familiar with how to set up a production web server. I do expect people to know stuff like every computer on the internet is under constant attack from scripts. Or that taking advantage of peoples' trust and leaking their data is bad actually.
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As a developer, the baby is how I see developers, too.
Is "IT" a general term for tech workers in some places? I keep seeing people refer to it as such, but where I am, it is a term which primarily describes networking and infrastructure professionals.
Network engineering is kind of in the middle where you take the skill set of help desk and office management. This often leads to help desk and software development both falling under the organization in information technology. Application support also often falls under this category.
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IT stands for Information Technology. Relevant Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology
Yes, that is consistent with my understanding - networking and infrastructure. Engineering and management is generally not considered IT where I am unless they are directly supporting networking and infrastructure. But someone writing code for a game or app wouldn't be IT.
Software devs and designers usually fall under IT is my understanding but I can see why many people/places would make the distinction. Especially for companies that only write software, their IT would more be the infrastructure, but if they're only writing software for in house use that's more on the IT side. I could be completely wrong about this too, just how I saw them grouped.
The wiki link states software to be included in the definition. Management is not IT of course, but as there exists management in IT is used in the image I'd guess.
Right, there is definitely a software side of IT, but not all software is IT adjacent. IT software is really a very small field these days, compared to software in general.
Yeah, it's a generic term here that encompasses most tech jobs