> Heroku style solutions could perhaps eliminate the need for operations, but that still seems pretty niche. That's sort of the direction that AWS has been aim

> Heroku style solutions could perhaps eliminate the need for operations, but that still seems pretty niche. That's sort of the direction that AWS has been aiming lately with some of their newer releases. For a variety of reasons, from security and privacy to cost analysis to performance I don't see pure ops or devops anywhere near vanishing though.