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the problem isn’t finding data, it’s figuring out what to do with it.

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The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products

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the best data scientists tend to be “hard scientists,” particularly physicists, rather than computer science majors.

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Infrastructure as Code.” If you’re going to do operations reliably, you need to make it reproducible and programmatic.

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Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.

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The new sysadmin won’t power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he’ll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service.

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With automation at this level, the new “ops guy” won’t care if he’s responsible for a dozen systems or 10,000. And the modern BOFH is, more often than not, an old-school sysadmin who has chosen not to adapt.

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Developing applications that can run effectively in a hybrid environment: that’s the responsibility of developers, with healthy cooperation with an operations team.

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