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Similarly, I find "devops" means "sysadmin that uses Jenkins sometimes".

Cthulhu_ 6y ago
Or "Person with too many responsibilities"
darkwater 6y ago
I don't really get how you could possibly be a sysadmin or a system engineer or an SRE or $WHATEVER if you don't use Jenkins or any other CI tool, if you don't use tools like Terraform or Ansible (which personally don't like at tool for infra mgmt but it's OK for config mgmt or image baking) etc etc. I mean, I was a sysadmin 15 years ago moving pizza boxes and cabling switches in a cold datacenter and gradually my job changed to this new reality (while moving between 4-5 small/medium companies, no corporate or FAANG). Is there really somebody out there whose job didn't change like this?
- weeeeelp 6y ago
  There are loads of what you could call "classical" sysadmins/application administrator type people around that never started to do automation, cause sometimes there's no need or willingness to do so. Especially in the small-to-medium sized companies, where the business is bread-and-butter type and not anything hightech - they might have some infrastructure and processess for years, can't see the reason to move to cloud, they had the same "IT guy" doing desktops and servers since ever, stuff just works and we don't want changes, etc.. There is a massive amount of IT work being done - work that you, me or any other denizen of HN would probably rate as terrible and smelling of middle ages. But it gets the job done, even if it's being done manually. And some people just don't know any better.
chasd00 6y ago
i once had a junior dev sheepishly ask me what "devops" means. I thought it was pretty brave of her to ask and acknowledge some ignorance. I told her it means whatever the speaker wants it to mean and don't worry about it, concentrate on writing good code, getting better, and getting the job done.
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- chowned 6y ago
  I appreciate the humor, but I think that was a bit of a disservice for her. Because even though you have a cheeky definition, the term does get used fairly frequently in the industry, and it would've been helpful to explain how it's commonly used, even if you don't agree with it.

Or "Person with too many responsibilities"

I don't really get how you could possibly be a sysadmin or a system engineer or an SRE or $WHATEVER if you don't use Jenkins or any other CI tool, if you don't use tools like Terraform or Ansible (which personally don't like at tool for infra mgmt but it's OK for config mgmt or image baking) etc etc. I mean, I was a sysadmin 15 years ago moving pizza boxes and cabling switches in a cold datacenter and gradually my job changed to this new reality (while moving between 4-5 small/medium companies, no corporate or FAANG). Is there really somebody out there whose job didn't change like this?

weeeeelp 6y ago
There are loads of what you could call "classical" sysadmins/application administrator type people around that never started to do automation, cause sometimes there's no need or willingness to do so. Especially in the small-to-medium sized companies, where the business is bread-and-butter type and not anything hightech - they might have some infrastructure and processess for years, can't see the reason to move to cloud, they had the same "IT guy" doing desktops and servers since ever, stuff just works and we don't want changes, etc.. There is a massive amount of IT work being done - work that you, me or any other denizen of HN would probably rate as terrible and smelling of middle ages. But it gets the job done, even if it's being done manually. And some people just don't know any better.

chasd00 6y ago

i once had a junior dev sheepishly ask me what "devops" means. I thought it was pretty brave of her to ask and acknowledge some ignorance. I told her it means whatever the speaker wants it to mean and don't worry about it, concentrate on writing good code, getting better, and getting the job done.

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chowned 6y ago
I appreciate the humor, but I think that was a bit of a disservice for her. Because even though you have a cheeky definition, the term does get used fairly frequently in the industry, and it would've been helpful to explain how it's commonly used, even if you don't agree with it.