This is an article written at the beginning of the new year, and I hope it will be helpful to everyone.
At the beginning of the new year, I gave everyone a conceptual impact. Just like my self-taught linux apprentices, I often say that changes in thinking are sometimes far more important than purely technical improvements. Of course, what I am writing here is operation and maintenance, which is actually related to most of the students who do technology.
Before, many students who did operation and maintenance asked me how to improve myself, how to develop in the future, and so on. In fact, apart from your actual work scenarios, the suggestions I gave are basically very imaginary. This will be more targeted if it is combined with the actual situation.
But since the end of last year, I have also contacted many operation and maintenance teams and personnel from different industries and companies, and we are also undergoing continuous transformation, so I think I can give some advice on the direction.
Because of a lot of confusion, it is actually a constraint from the status quo. It is always spinning in a circle, so it is better to jump out and see. That is what we often say, don't do local optimization, try to find a better solution from the overall situation.
The suggestion is actually very simple. Follow the trend. What is the trend is cloud computing. The direct point is to do a job related to cloud computing.
In fact, pay close attention to the development of technology trends, and you will find that some popular concepts such as Serverless, FaaS, edge computing, elastic computing, cloud native, IoT, etc., and even the familiar Docker container, K8S, machine learning , AI, etc.
If we think about it carefully, they are basically related to cloud computing. Many of them are new technologies derived from the trend of cloud computing, and because of the infrastructure provided by cloud computing, they are closely related to each other.
Strictly speaking, these technologies can only play a role and value on the cloud, or even on the public cloud. Without cloud computing, these technologies have no meaning.
Because the biggest benefit brought by cloud computing is "on demand", which is what we call flexibility, which in turn brings optimization of costs.
If we still maintain thousands of devices in our own computer room, it is our own cost. To be honest, no matter how flexible it is, it does not make much sense, because it does not solve the actual cost problem.
Furthermore, in the field of machine learning, it is characterized by periodic need for a large amount of CPU and GPU resources, not continuous demand, so if you continue the old idea of purchasing by yourself, this cost will go up and it is simply unrealistic for ordinary enterprises.
Moreover, sometimes it is necessary to consider the distribution of resources in different regions, such as edge computing. It is okay for an ordinary enterprise to build a computer room, but it is not realistic to manage and maintain many computer rooms.
So, to summarize here, it is not difficult to understand that the future technology trend must be related to cloud computing. This is a general trend and is irreversible.
However, in many companies now, it is very realistic that the failure to go to the cloud is due to policy reasons or lack of technical strength and manpower. The existing self-operation and maintenance model continues to play, so it is developing like this.
This model is a good choice for enterprises. It is stable and does not need to be tossed. But, to be honest, for students who do technology, especially operation and maintenance, it is not challenging and there will be no development. Space is often very hard.
I found that it was this group that asked me the most questions about transformation.
Therefore, from the perspective of personal growth, I feel that if you want better development and more space, you should move towards the cloud computing industry and take up positions related to this industry. Otherwise, it really can only be the role of moving the server, plugging in the network cable, doing the configuration, and restarting the service.
Some job references, such as the operation and maintenance of public cloud platforms, are at least large enough in scale and volume, and the challenges are large enough, and they can also be exposed to many new technologies. If you do better, you can refer to Google CRE.
If you have good communication skills and have some experience, you can consider a solution architect to connect with customers. At least from my current contacts, the overall level and ability of this role is not enough, and there are few who can do it in depth. , But in actual circumstances, the requirements for this role are very high. If it can be done well, the future is really unlimited, and it will even gradually replace the position of cloud sales. In 17 years, Oracle had cut two-thirds of sales. , In order to increase the number of solutions positions, which shows how important and valuable this position is in actual situations.
Or, go to the larger Party A to be the link between the cloud and the business. This role is to complement each other with the cloud solution architect. The question to be considered is how to make the cloud solution good At the same time, how to measure the running quality of cloud services and so on.
At the same time, in Party A, the cost issue must be considered. The derived role is similar to technical operation, because in the cloud, resources are easy to obtain, but the cost will also fluctuate constantly, different products, different pricing strategies , The usage method and cycle are different, the pricing is also different, and the strategy is different for different clouds. How to control and optimize well, there is also a lot of room for development.
In the end, in a word, if you follow the trend, you will not know what you are going to do. You don't have to be ahead, but don't fall behind, at least don't fall behind too much. I will share it here today, and I will share more multi-operation and maintenance experience on my own website: http://www.jkkcss.cn/