Some developers end up doing a substantial amount of systems administration work. For instance, it often takes a lot of effort to get a development environment set up. In other cases, developers need to work closely with systems administrators (or even take over) when deployments are done.
In many of my programming jobs, systems administration could easily consume 8 - 10 hours a week of my time. I wonder how much systems administration the average programmer actually does these days. Take this quick poll to let us know.
Developers, how often do you do systems administration work?
J.Ja
Disclosure of Justin’s industry affiliations: Justin James has a working arrangement with Microsoft to write an article for MSDN Magazine. He also has a contract with Spiceworks to write product buying guides.
