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I'm a sysadmin. No one really knows what people in my profession do, so they just assume it's all servers and computers. I'm all about the automation tools, though. With the right tools and credentials, you can install apps, create accounts, provision a new VM, parse through your emails, brew a cup of coffee, and let your wife know you'll be home early so she can get rid of her boy toy before you get home...all with a single click.
I feel you. Programming and other computer science is really hard to explain to a mogul. Most concepts rely on the interlocuteur’s understanding and acknowledgment that sending an email isn’t just magic, or just works. That it takes. Lot of smart people actively making sure those machines are working and talking together at all time. And when you try to explain, I bet they start looking at you with the feeling that they just developed instant ADHD.
I work elevated technical support for an email marketing company, and part of my job is communicating with backend folks like you. Y'all are wizards. I normally have a pretty good grasp on tech talk, but following a sysadmin thread in Slack, you might as well be saying you hacked the mainframe to disable the algorithms, that's about how much sense some of it makes to us plebs.
I'm still mad PowerShell DSC never really took off
What's nice is a good monitoring dashboard showing that everything is running smoothly — lots of user traffic, low latency, no errors. Updates rolling out in a steady cadence; all's right with the world.