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Devops just means your IT people are software engineers. That's it. Web systems are so complex (and automated) to manage these days that you need to be able to
by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Devops just means your IT people are software engineers. That's it.
Web systems are so complex (and automated) to manage these days that you need to be able to write code to manage the infastructure.
Google has been doing this for ages without calling it Devops. As far as I'm aware all of their main support people are software devs
- praneshp 9y ago> Google has been doing this for ages without calling it Devops Are you of the opinion that DevOps, like Agile, is a buzzword and money making opportunity? I had a brief stint in a DevOps-ish role and that was my conclusion.
- slackingoff2017 9y ago100% from the two companies I've seen implementing it. All it means in practice is "fuck, our IT guys don't understand this docker thing. We need a software guy to write up stuff to automate all this" I looked at a couple Devops position and saw the same. Basically "we need a software engineer with networking skills". IT jobs are quickly vanishing. All the stuff that doesn't require software development has been automated away besides things anyone can do like wire some machines to a switch. Everything is either really easy or quite hard and it's hard to hire a guy that knows software at an IT salary. Now we have Devops, so that execs can justify hiring software engineers to maintain the network.