When I was a wee lad, “programmers” wrote software and sorta tested it and then kicked it over the fence to “systems administrators”, who chain-smoked and were

When I was a wee lad, “programmers” wrote software and sorta tested it and then kicked it over the fence to “systems administrators”, who chain-smoked and were very, very un-woke. This was a bad system. To the extent that “DevOps” means anything, it’s that the spheres of capability and responsibility need to have tons of overlap: SWE’s need to be in the oncall loop and know how the filesystem works, and SRE’s need to be serious coders. That’s it: everyone codes, everyone operates. We all automate where feasible. Sidebar: What’s with the crazy surge in BuzzFeed-style titles on the front page? It’s not a federal matter but it’s not a slight change YoY either.