There will always be specialties because humans naturally gravitate towards subsets of any field of endeavor, and because computing has grown too vast for one p

There will always be specialties because humans naturally gravitate towards subsets of any field of endeavor, and because computing has grown too vast for one person to master all of it. The real change over the past couple of decades is that we have developed enough of the technical tools and libraries to automate system admin and operations, that the foundations of the whole field have shifted. We need to start out as being DevOps Engineers and specialize on that base.