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I agree the need for troubleshooting can be born from poor decisions, but it's still a marketable skill for places that need it at scale. One of my roles was head of Linux Engineering for a Fortune 50. Sure there's the pets vs cattle thing and we all prefer cattle, but particularly in places with lots of legacy apps and infrastructure there are plenty of both that need more nuance than turning it off and back on again.

There's value in fixing things in the moment and then feeding them back to your engineer and architecture functions to address endemic issues so that everyone benefits.




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