On infrastructure as code.

“What has happened is that the old school operator, where you had a three-ring binder and you followed procedures over and over again, frankly, that job sucked. What has happened over a period of time is that sysadmin skill set has been expanding to include more and more basic infrastructure software development. What has been most interesting in that transition, has been essentially, I think of it as an expansion in the job roles going from basic systems administration to really what we call infrastructure engineering. The road ahead for everybody, who builds and maintains infrastructure or applications in software, looks like building a very powerful software platform.”

– “Jesse Robbins on the state of infrastructure automation