2023 DevOps is awesome. Today's "sysadmins" are kind-of, sort-of expected to know a programming language, at least superficially. This was definitely not the c

2023 DevOps is awesome. Today's "sysadmins" are kind-of, sort-of expected to know a programming language, at least superficially. This was definitely not the case in 2015. The whole idea of Platform Engineering formally existing (I.e. platform is a product) is fantastic. There has always been lip service from IT about treating the rest of the business as customers, but the definition of "customer" was usually bastardized to fit whatever agenda IT execs wanted to push. Not the case (as much) anymore. Also, the idea that today's "sysadmins" are part of application delivery into production was extremely nascent in 2015. Most sysadmin jobs didn't touch apps with a 10-ft pole back then. This, IMO, is the greatest benefit the movement brought to bear. Shoot, even the fact that saying DevOps feels dated because it's obvious now demonstrates how far we've come. Saved the best for last. Kubernetes is hella complicated compared to 2015 "DevOps" tech stack (which i miss because they are simple), but provides so so so SO many benefits for free, especially if you're not in public cloud.