The focus on automation, and it being called DevOps, is simply an evolution of the work of sysadmins. I believe you have this exactly backwards. The problem i

The focus on automation, and it being called DevOps, is simply an evolution of the work of sysadmins. I believe you have this exactly backwards. The problem is that we keep silo'ing everything and inventing new buzzwords and half-assed tech. We can split things into smaller pieces quicker than we could ever staff up. Nothing has changed since the 80s. The only thing that's different now is that instead of programming in one little pond of a language, now everything you do is programmable. That doesn't mean you need 47 specialists. It means you need to get really good at managing and limiting complexity. We don't want to split off and evolve roles into newer and even more specialized roles. This is the thing that made deployment and updating so whacked to begin with. </rant>