Re: offtopic: Infrastructure Solutions architect - any good ?
- From: Subodh Deshpande <deshpande.subodh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:12:28 +0530
Matt,
It is absolutely necessary manytimes to become a annoying
bottleneck/gatekeeper. otherwise it will be wastage of resources.. :)
Thanks for sharing and take care..subodh
On 17 July 2010 02:12, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I used to do this for my first web company I worked for. It varies firm
> to firm, but my job was to make sure that the infrastructure we were
> purchasing was “aligned” properly. That doesn’t mean everything is
> best-of-breed, but nor does it mean, “Just buy IBM” – instead for any new
> application or initiative, we looked at what was the best and most
> cost-effective way of accomplishing our goal.
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> So, for example, when we were looking at redoing our database
> infrastructure, my preference was that we shift from using Solaris to using
> Linux – the reasoning being that we were a largely Linux shop, with hundreds
> of Linux web and app servers, and having all of our database servers on
> Solaris made us have to maintain a whole second operating system just for
> that one tier. However, and this is back in 2001, at that time, after some
> evaluation and discussions with Oracle and our server vendors, we/I (it
> wasn’t a unilateral decision on my part) decided that Oracle on Linux was
> not yet production-ready, and the migration path and risk factors of Linux
> outweighed the operational benefits we’d get from running Linux.
>
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> I also ran things like datacenter migrations, evaluated hardware and
> software, RFPs for new hardware, things like that. I also had somewhat of a
> “sniff test” role on developer requirements. If a developer claimed they
> needed a 10 server farm for a particular application they were designing,
> instead of running it as an additional service on one of our clusters, they
> had to justify it to me and my team. Etc. etc.
>
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> I’d like to think I was good at what I did, but I am sure that to some of
> the DBA and developer team, I was an annoying bottleneck/gatekeeper, and
> created extra work for them. But my responsibility was making sure that the
> infrastructure we were buying made sense, and that over the long-term, it
> would be maintainable.
>
>
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> Ps- and from a schooling perspective, I went to NYU for acting, so it is
> possible for non-technically schooled people to be technical. J
>
>
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Andrew Kerber
> *Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2010 4:11 PM
> *To:* Ram Raman
> *Cc:* ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L Freelists
> *Subject:* Re: offtopic: Infrastructure Solutions architect - any good ?
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> I am sure they do exist...
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Ram Raman <veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I have seen technically good MBAs too.
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> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> Here is your problem ...'with an MBA'. Not exactly helpful for someone in
> a technical job..
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> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Ram K <lambu999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> We had an architect with an MBA from a top school who overrode most of us
> in the DBA/admin teams and made the decision to choose 32 bit Windows for
> running oracle RAC for an application that was to support thousands of
> users.
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:50 PM, MacGregor, Ian A. <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> The architect is involved in putting together what machines are needed for
> a project, what OS they should run, what application server should be
> used, and what database management system He is mainly a collector if
> information. However if the OS team wants to run LINUX and the database
> team wants to run Solaris, he would make the decision on which way to go.
>
> The architect has too look at all the projects and design a cost-effective
> strategy for them all. He is usually not i the chain of command, but has
> the power to make decisions as discussed above.
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> On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:11 AM, <Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> > I ment a job title. where does this this guy stand in a command chain
> and
> > what good does he produce. Architect sounds like a person who knows a lot
> > but nothing in particular.
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