gigaom.com — "Network engineers are longer relevant to today's Internet ... the current state of the Internet [is] the ultimate success of networking technologies. You can deploy a wildly successful Web app that serves millions and never know how a router, switch or load-balancer works ... has the Internet reached a level of abstraction similar to electricity?"
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Closed AccountApr 12, 2007
dammit and I just got my degree
mrsteveman1Apr 12, 2007
So the 10-15 companies who come to my school every month looking for kids who aren't even finished with their networking degree yet......OHHH those companies must still be on web 1.0, gotcha, my bad, carry on..
stockjonesApr 12, 2007
What? this article is dumb. Yes some aspects of setting up a network are easier, but there is far more to networking and understanding "network" traffic then meets the eye. Good Grief.
zackkApr 12, 2007
The world without engineers. <a class="user" href="http://www.anvari.org/cols/The_World_Without_Engineers/all.html">http://www.anvari.org/cols/The_World_Without_Engineers/all.html</a>The world of Internet without network engineers....
thrillApr 12, 2007
Yeah, didn't you guys know that servers of the future will not need any configuration. All you'll need to do is take it out of the box, plug it into your firewall (preferably CheckPoint because you know they're the best *snicker*), and boom, you'll have a complete web2.0 system with all the trimmings. Heck, you'll be competing with digg in less than 2 weeks!But wait.. didn't they say that windows was going to be the end of the sysadmin 9 years ago?But that's right, today it's a different story. New business plans. Smarter people than 10 years ago.New model:1) buy server2) plug server into firewall3) ???4) Profit!!!!--thrill
jumangiApr 12, 2007
Am I the only one who is sick of Web 2.0 already?Next they're going to say that its going to cure cancer and solve world peace...
trevorg75Apr 12, 2007
This is just an idiotic and uneducated statement.
digger109Apr 12, 2007
Om Malik again blew hot smoke out of his ass. Today, role of a network engineer, who masters his stuff, like a *REAL* CCIE, is ever more important than any other time. Yes, setting up a home network with a broadband modem, a wireless router and a couple of usb stick style network adapters, right out of the box, became so pervasive that, even your 60 year old mom or grand ma can do, but when it comes to deploying web application with balanced loads and stuff, one can't help but wonder, what was Om Malik smoking as he wrote this crapola.
mistahrothApr 13, 2007
This article is kind of backwards don't you think?Without network admin or engineers, the CEO would need to know how a router or switch works, or what router protocols to impliment. Its the network engineer's job to make it just work, and no one needs to know how it works, it just does.Electrical wire doesn't just appear in thin air, the schematics must be designed by an electrician, its just such a common practise we forget about it. Network engineer's will never be out of work, if anything the demand will just increase as the internet becomes more demanding.
Closed AccountApr 14, 2007
Well - i think we could just .... pull 'the plug' for a couple hours? :)6513G-L2#conf tEnter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.6513G-L2(config)#int tengigabitethernet 0/16513G-L2(config-if)#shutdown6513G-L2(config-if)#^Z6513G-L2#:)*do not try this at work ;) *
trooperbillNov 21, 2008
Thrill, yes but people accessing such a server would still need internet connections so what should they do all have individual dsl accounts pluged straight into their pc's?anyhoo for what its worth we use www.xrio.com UBM's for load balancing and it roxx