Yeah. "DevOps" originated as a naive attempt to fix this issue by eliminating the "wall" between the roles, but it was quickly misunderstood. The old-school, m

Yeah. "DevOps" originated as a naive attempt to fix this issue by eliminating the "wall" between the roles, but it was quickly misunderstood. The old-school, master of the universe-style sysadmin who had to use advanced wizardry developed out of deep knowledge and intuition about how the computer worked at a fundamental level is still the ideal developer OR operator. But it's hard to find people who even understand this role, let alone people who are hiring for it. People only seem to understand pigeonholes, despite occasional well-intended attempts to unify, that generally have disastrous results. You just need a special breed to get someone who can really function up and down the stack, and every company should seek out, train, and develop such highly-empowered "tech special forces", for lack of a better term. It's tragic that so many companies don't realize this.