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>DevOps is dead? Fyi, the title is using the rhetoric template of: <SOMETHING> is dead. Long live <SOMETHING>. [1] ...where <SOMETHING> is deliberately th
by jasode 11y ago
>DevOps is dead?
Fyi, the title is using the rhetoric template of:
<SOMETHING> is dead. Long live <SOMETHING>. [1]
...where <SOMETHING> is deliberately the same word in both sentences. The construct is a shortened version of: <SOMETHING> in its previous and more well-known form has evolved to <SOMETHING> with a new variation. That <SOMETHING> is still there the whole time -- which is sort of meta-joke connecting the 2 sentences.
It's as if someone wrote "Cars are dead. Long live cars." to signal the change from humans manually driving the cars to AI robots doing it. If you read the "cars" literally, it looks nonsensical because there are obviously cars existing both before and after the shift to automation.
[1] examples:
http://www.pcoitmurphy.com/_books_are_dead__long_live_books__55201.htm http://www.pcoitmurphy.com/_books_are_dead__long_live_books_...
https://www.tnooz.com/article/hotels-Airbnb-rented/ https://www.tnooz.com/article/hotels-Airbnb-rented/
http://www.wired.com/insights/2014/08/moocs-are-dead-long-live-the-mooc/ http://www.wired.com/insights/2014/08/moocs-are-dead-long-li...
- oblio 11y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_the_king https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_...!
- mryan 11y agoTo add to this informative post: The original form of the phrase is "the king is dead, long live the king". It was used when the king died in the sense of "the [old] king is dead, long live the [new] king". So in that light it means "[the old way of] devops is dead, long live [the new way of] devops".
- rubiquity 11y agoI would still disagree with that because DevOps really hasn't changed at all. It's not like AWS popped up yesterday. It's been around for a decade.