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"A decade ago" Attaching a time horizon on things which evolve causes many things to lose meaningful perspective relative to the discussion at hand. The fact
by hellohowareu 4y ago
"A decade ago"
Attaching a time horizon on things which evolve causes many things to lose meaningful perspective relative to the discussion at hand.
The fact that things evolve does not negate my opinion that DevOps is a meaningful term.
Heck, I am currently watching the "That DevOps Guy" youtube channel (~50k subscribers) in order to learn about Helm Charts (related to kubernetes).
Clearly, people use the term DevOps to meaningfully communicate today. 10 years ago? This is a post from 2022, not 2012. So, you're referring to a discussion from 10 years ago... Yeah I don't know that its very relevant in a discussion of "DevOps actually does mean something [implied in today's age]"
a little over a hundred years ago a barber was a surgeon ("Up until the 19th century barbers were generally referred to as barber-surgeons, and they were called upon to perform a wide variety of tasks. They treated and extracted teeth, branded slaves, created ritual tattoos or scars, cut out gallstones and hangnails, set fractures, gave enemas, and lanced abscesses." [1] )
and a farmer was a soldier (WW1, US Civil War, & previously)
[1] https://brainblogger.com/2011/05/06/from-haircuts-to-hangnails-the-barber-surgeon/ https://brainblogger.com/2011/05/06/from-haircuts-to-hangnai...
- baobabKoodaa 4y agoI don't have any issue with language evolving and words changing their meaning over time. If the term "DevOps" today simply meant "doing Ops in the cloud", I wouldn't have a problem with that. The word meant X a decade ago, and today it means Y, that's fine. But that's not the reality today. The reality is that a decade ago this term meant exclusively X, and today this term is ambiguous and sometimes refers to X and sometimes refers to Y. When someone talks about "DevOps" today, that term could mean almost anything. It conveys almost no meaning. In that sense the term has definitely "lost its meaning".