> It's really job title for "sysadmin but paid and owned by the software department to keep ITs fingers out of everyone's shit" Most devops aren't really full

> It's really job title for "sysadmin but paid and owned by the software department to keep ITs fingers out of everyone's shit" Most devops aren't really fully-fledged sysadmins though. The job of babysitting software and coming up with SLOs was always the part of system engineering that I hated. It wasn't digging through production outages with strace and tcpdump. They actually defined that as something that we didn't need any more so all DevOps gets is metrics and logs and they can't touch production at all and defined that job out of existence. (Then every now and then I see some devops person pleading for information on how to deploy tools like tcpdump and strace to production and I can see that the technical foundation of devops is a pack of lies) Also, devops is more "oh fuck they want to give all the devs a pager, quick hire some junior devs to give the pagers to and we'll call them devops".