> Why? Surely we will come up with maintenance robots that will maintain the other ones, including other instances of the maintenance robot.
And who's job is it to make sure that these maintenance robots actually are doing their job?
We basically have 100% automated webpages, providing services and automatically updating themselves. (Puppet, Aptitude, etc. etc.). Even the process of buying new computers to hook into a webpage's processing system has been automated "through the cloud" with Heroku, Amazon Web, and OVH Servers.
And yet, you still require roughly one IT guy every 100 servers, to make sure that those servers are actually running. (+/- whatever, based on skill-level and maturity of the project)
I mean, the best-case scenario for a maintenance robot is something like Nagios, which will automatically check if various web services are still up and running.
And who's job is it to make sure that these maintenance robots actually are doing their job?
We basically have 100% automated webpages, providing services and automatically updating themselves. (Puppet, Aptitude, etc. etc.). Even the process of buying new computers to hook into a webpage's processing system has been automated "through the cloud" with Heroku, Amazon Web, and OVH Servers.
And yet, you still require roughly one IT guy every 100 servers, to make sure that those servers are actually running. (+/- whatever, based on skill-level and maturity of the project)
I mean, the best-case scenario for a maintenance robot is something like Nagios, which will automatically check if various web services are still up and running.