DevOps was originally about moving ops into dev teams. At Amazon they just gave devs pagers. Devs hated that. The SRE role seems to have taken over the app-f

DevOps was originally about moving ops into dev teams. At Amazon they just gave devs pagers. Devs hated that. The SRE role seems to have taken over the app-facing side of what system engineers did being an interface between an app and the hardware. A lot of what I see SREs doing is things like app metrics and SLAs which were not what system engineers really did. And the SRE role has been pushed around from being embedded in dev teams, to being their own teams that managed apps to being a centralized DevOps team that looks an awful lot like the old silo'd split between Dev and Ops. I don't know where the actual system engineers went, they probably run Kubernetes clusters at FAANGs and have SRE titles these days.