@chas @feld

Thats awesome to know there are folks out there who've made that transition. I and I think it's great when it works out - lots of my mentors where sysadmins who were C programmers because that was so critical for supporting new hardware.

But, to be honest I get tired of how quickly people discount the experience of people with decades of systems/network/support experience in favor of developers who speak the same language as senior management who are mostly people with business/softwaredev backgrounds.

I see this pretty frequently when working in places trying to implement the DevOps philosophy, but maybe I'm just unlucky.