thecoolnessrune
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- Jun 8, 2005
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My new employer is 100% cloud. Systems are no longer treated like family, but rather livestock. I would be shocked to see a machine live 30 days let alone have an uptime that long.
Same for one of our clients. They treat systems / applications the proper way since they're newer. I.E., servers (and applications that run on servers) must be treated as if they'll go down at any moment, not like the old school thinking of them running forever. They patch every server, every month. They consistently have the fewest issues of any of our clients, and little to no security vulnerabilities to manage.
My home environment is patched in its entirety every month. If something that I'm running has issues with a certain patch level, then I'll give it a little time to be resolved otherwise I'm chucking the software.
I can definitely see where exceedingly long uptimes (thousands of days) is pretty impressive, otherwise I see it as fairly equivalent to flaunting one's A+ Certification from 1995. Archaic processes from archaic thinking.