when John Willis explained it in 2016 devops had enormous potential for the initiated. id guess maybe 10% of anyone who says 'devops' does anything remotely clo

when John Willis explained it in 2016 devops had enormous potential for the initiated. id guess maybe 10% of anyone who says 'devops' does anything remotely close though. devops in 2022 means if youre a dev, youre expected to know the bowels of the OS inside and out as well and be willing to spend hours debugging it alongside your normal programming work. if youre in ops? it means debugging someones undocumented middleware from nine years ago while the front of site burns so "rockstar" coders dont jump ship having to do it instead. if youre in dev or ops, it now means standups where you sit down for an hour and talk about where to put your story in jira or how to enter it at all, and where you discuss broad strategy too. instead of leaving after your status update, youre expected to stay. its just another meeting now. and once boardmembers and leadership realized they could spare themselves the crucifixion of any real accountability after a breech, they turned devops into devSECops, meaning your infosec team sits in awkward silence as you explain why double defined nginx headers arent a feature and the same management team that made them part of the standups also unilaterally declared ssl3 can never be deprecated because customers.