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System Administrators used to blame developers. Developers used to blame System Administrators. Devops is in part an attempt to mediate between "silos".

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Bad System Administrators used to blame developers. Bad Developers used to blame System Administrators. Real Systems Administrators attempt to mediate between "silos".

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Therefore we need a new title to distinguish "Real System Administrators" from server technicians. So, we get "devops" for people who understand both.

Except in reality we get people who are bad at dev and bad at ops pretending they can do both

You get people who aren't very good in every kind of role in every kind of organization. Sturgeon's Law applies to everything, even people. If you have more than 10% of your team doing really well you're ahead of the game.

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