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Devops may be what a good sysadmin does. I'm not sure that job is. Looks far more like they're looking for a developer to write sysadmin tools.

• blueben 16y ago
  This is exactly true. Not to mention "DevOps" is not a job position, it's a culture and philosophy. In the past few months as DevOps has taken off, people listing for "DevOps" job titles usually mean highly proficient sysadmins. In this case, Twilio just wants a developer with a cloud management background. There's nothing DevOpsy about it. I'm sad that people are not taking the time to learn exactly what DevOps means and thusly commandeering the name for whatever they think they need.
  • emcooke 16y ago
    Can't someone whose role embodies a certain culture and philosophy not have a title that fits that goal? How would you define DevOps?
  • gaius 16y ago
    people are not taking the time to learn exactly what DevOps means Now I know that "DevOps" means "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it". Whenever you come across something in IT you think is new, take the time to find out if mainframe shops were doing it in the 1970s... Back then sysadmins wrote assembly language to automate systems tasks and it was just an everyday part of the job!
    • blueben 16y ago
      Ouch. See, DevOps is not just "sysadmins writing automation tools". Your post illustrates my point perfectly.