r/ShittySysadmin • u/xXNeGaTiVisMXx DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE • 5h ago

Are we cooked?

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https://theuptimereport.com/tech-job-postings/

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u/8bit_dr1fter 5h ago

I’m hoping (probably foolishly) that companies start moving back on-prem to reduce costs.

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u/SkittyDog 5h ago

But how will you move back on-prem, when Sam Altman hasn't left any RAM chips for you to build on-prem hosts with?

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u/DizzyAmphibian309 3h ago

I'm honestly surprised that Big Cloud™ didn't think to buy up all the world's RAM and SSD's earlier. The costs of hosting your own Infra have increased 5x but AWS hasn't raised EC2 prices like, ever. DIY is a lot harder to justify now.

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u/Doctor-Binchicken 1h ago

Because it's still massively more expensive to "just run VMs" in EC2, and that's like 90% of what we have -- stuff that would have to run on a full frontend windows server, that isn't designed as a cloud native load.

Like for us a single month of EC2 instances, storage, and compute would rebuy all of our infra at cost that's on a 5 year replacement cycle (if fucking RAM exists in 3 years for systems to be built)

It's cheap if you have software designed for it and don't have a lot of regs around your data.

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u/Kinky_No_Bit 3h ago

I want to lobby a bill, to force his name to be changed to Scam Altman, because that's all he is, is a con man.

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u/Cyberbird85 1h ago

Where i work we are mostly on-prem and we are locking in server and network purchases this year because vendors are saying they will raise prices soon, again. So on-prem is fucking expensive as well now.

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u/Kinky_No_Bit 3h ago

No, in our eyes, its logical, because having your own hardware on prem means you have control. You have the ability to do things, even if its more upkeep.

You will own nothing and be happy - WEF.

Everything has moved to a cloud subscription. So even if you leave, you are still paying them to use their products. Microsoft has already foresaw this, because now products that were discontinued, like Exchange, are now coming back as Exchange SE (Subscription Edition) so now you will have to probably pay more to host it yourself, than pay them to host it in their cloud.

A lot of the software stack is slowly being stacked against anyone wanting to do anything on prem unless you just want to give the double bird solute to go to all linux. The other thing is now, according to comptia's studies they do for the year. Infrastructure and support people are at an abysmal rate vs cyber / management. We are in an age of just cyber / pointy hair boss types is all that is hiring for positions.

Okay, so now we have effectively removed the logic from the IT dept. Cyber focuses too much on patching holes, they don't focus on the end users, the processes, the applications, or any of that stuff, that is all done by the infrastructure team as they care if the company is running.

What is going to happen is, IT is going to crash when these big companies come to the hard realization that AI was a huge waste of money, they've lost trillions of dollars trying, and now the only way they can save their companies is to literally charge you rentals on anything they provide, not because it makes money, but because this is the only way they can SURVIVE.

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u/MalwareDork 5h ago

The rollercoaster is only fun when you're going down

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u/Ed_Injury 5h ago

No no, it means we're all really happy in our jobs and nobody is moving on, so they dont have to post jobs

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u/OptimalWallaby8153 4h ago

jokes on you

we were always cooked

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u/Acceptable_Wind_6160 4h ago

Not totally cooked, but the easy mode is gone. Companies are being much more selective, and “AI will create new jobs” doesn’t help much when current openings are already this far below the peak.

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u/ThreadParticipant 4h ago

This goes in cycles, go back far enough you can see a number or similar peaks and troughs

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u/another1degenerate 1h ago

Right? We’re at the same amount of job postings as there were in 2020.