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I feel like I need some definitions to understand this article and discussion. What is dev? What is ops? What is devops? What is system administration? What is sysadmin?

I'm 47 and what is described seems like the old problems that I thought devops solved.

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I’m also confused by this article. Perhaps this is more applicable to companies that develop software that is very tightly coupled with the web and cloud services. I work in the embedded industry and from my understanding (as naive as it may be), DevOps has simply meant the automation of building, testing and releasing our products to a customer accessible endpoint and is something that is life changing. It massively cuts back on manual human interaction getting our software to our customers. Perhaps since our product is not nearly as monolithic as most products that really hook into DevOps processes that can match the actual product in terms of its scale and complexity, DevOps is something wonderful that I would never define as ‘bullshit’.

DevOps is a way of creating a specialization label so that people can differentiate each other and create more roles to fill at a staffing level.

Since you’re 47 (I’m 52), it’s the equivalent of hiring an “AutoConf engineer” in the late 90s.

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