Time is money, and the more time I spend on infrastructure, the less time I spend on product. And thus is born the incredible demand of infrastructure as a service.
Thankfully one person's cloud is another person's on prem infrastructure so sysadmin skills will always be in demand.
From my perspective in enterprise computing, I now see people taking 2 paths. One where they become super deep sysadmins and work on infra teams supporting large scale deployments (cloud or not) and the other being folks who write code and think of infra as an abstraction upon which they can request services for their code.
Both are noble paths and I just hope folks find the path which brings them the most joy.
Thankfully one person's cloud is another person's on prem infrastructure so sysadmin skills will always be in demand.
From my perspective in enterprise computing, I now see people taking 2 paths. One where they become super deep sysadmins and work on infra teams supporting large scale deployments (cloud or not) and the other being folks who write code and think of infra as an abstraction upon which they can request services for their code.
Both are noble paths and I just hope folks find the path which brings them the most joy.