"DevOps" became a job title because the level of knowledge required is enough to warrant one. DevOps Engineers need to know their stack well enough to respond q

"DevOps" became a job title because the level of knowledge required is enough to warrant one. DevOps Engineers need to know their stack well enough to respond quickly to production issues. It's not enough to live at a high abstraction layer when you're responding to non happy-path events. On top of sysadmin and networking knowledge DevOps-ers need to know a bunch of specialist tooling (Ansible, Terraform etc.), need to know the ins-and-outs of their cloud provider AND learn Kubernetes which is an extra abstraction across cloud providers and comes with its own complexity and quirks. All this does make me wonder where we've come from ten years ago when we thought of Docker as a useful. Is it really easier to run a backend now?