What is it like to manage 10,000 servers?

Most of us would never have to, but still it satisfies your curiosity to find out would it is like.

Hotmail engineer Phil Smoot describes it as it is in an interview with ACM Queue.

As mentioned at /., some interesting points:
- tape backups are out!
- spam levels have stabilised

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