Call the person or the team or the practice whatever you'd like: DevOps is the merger of development and business operations. It is not developer + sysadmin. Co

Call the person or the team or the practice whatever you'd like: DevOps is the merger of development and business operations. It is not developer + sysadmin. Companies with no "devops" (people/team/practice) build big sticky balls of mud. If they're lucky, they hit product-market-fit before the mud dries - if not, well, this is why most software companies die and why most large organizations cannot make progress. DevOps simply plots the trajectory of our drying ball of mud, and attempts to keep it moist for as long as possible. I don't care if I'm by myself, if I have a team, if I have a devops title - all I want is to prevent the existential death-by-garbage-fire that eventually consumes all technology. If you're a developer and you're not aware that you're marching slowly towards a complexity-cliff, that's fine - we just have different jobs. If you're a developer and you're aware commits aren't by default equivalent to progress, congrats, you're an SRE/DevOps/Senior Engineer/Platform/whatever.