The perception of a "need for so much dev ops nowadays" stems, in my view, from a skills mismatch in the market. Division of labor and specialization are two n

The perception of a "need for so much dev ops nowadays" stems, in my view, from a skills mismatch in the market. Division of labor and specialization are two natural results of any rapidly evolving industry. The tech industry is no exception. The problem is that there are currently comparatively quite a lot of ways to learn the skills necessary to become a competent web developer, backend engineer, data scientist, etc. Compared to these titles, the ways to learn the skills involved in designing, operating, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure have not kept up with market demand. Kubernetes is not "the" solution, but it is one of several solutions to the problem of standardizing a trade skill for the purposes of making it transferrable. Nobody wants to go to work at a place where the skills they need to do their job well are both difficult to acquire and completely useless once they get a new job.