DevOps was the name of the conference. The actual job title was meant to be “Agile Systems Administrator”. People got the conference confused with the “10 dep

DevOps was the name of the conference. The actual job title was meant to be “Agile Systems Administrator”. People got the conference confused with the “10 deploys a day” talk from Flickr. DevOps is a failure because it’s a meaningless term that changes depending on the bearers own understanding: the issue is that everyone is right. It’s a nebulous idea. I wrote, rather frustratedly, about this. I even did the research and learned something new myself at the time. http://blog.dijit.sh/devops-confusion-and-frustration http://blog.dijit.sh/devops-confusion-and-frustration Someone on hackernews responded to me once that: “devops is how sysadmins get respect for their role” and that resonated with me. Sysadmins today are what helpdesk was 15 years ago now though.