I did not entirely agree with the main assertion of the post. However having re-read it, I do now broadly agree. I would say that devops _should_ be a spectrum

I did not entirely agree with the main assertion of the post. However having re-read it, I do now broadly agree. I would say that devops _should_ be a spectrum. I have always worked at places that never really had rigid boundaries between sysadmin and dev. So I was really quite baffled by the initial push to devops (Isn't that what you were doing before? How can you be a sysadmin if you can't code.) Having a department of devops is fine, so long as most of them are embedded into dev teams. Assuming you rotate your devops around dev teams, its a good way to remove single persons of failure, and increase standardisation. Depending on size, there might be a chance to have a core systems/platform team.