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> Wikipedia describes DevOps as a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations… > I translate that as follows: DevOps is all the work
by dilyevsky 3y ago
> Wikipedia describes DevOps as a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations…
> I translate that as follows: DevOps is all the work that goes into making sure the business software runs in places other than your developers machines. Unless you've got a DevOps specialist on your team, you're probably deprioritizing DevOps to some degree…
That seems like a weird interpretation of the original definition. Especially the “devops specialist” part.
- zgoldberg 3y agoGood feedback! I was trying to get at the idea that DevOps is broad, its often invisible and its therefore often undervalued/underprioritized. I'll have another go trying to convey that.
- dilyevsky 3y agoThanks for putting this together! I read the rest of this section and it seems solid, the into however does read like you’re suggesting to compartmentalize “devops tasks” which I think is antithetical to the original idea
- dijit 3y agothe problem with the "original idea" is nobody can decide what it actually means. The interpretation that I see banded about comes from the 10+ deploys a day talk from flickr, where they said having a team of diverse backgrounds was better than having an individual. Somehow in that zeitgeist sysadmins got rebranded devops, so in that case it makes sense to have a "devops engineer".
- coffeebeqn 3y agoIt’s the same as agile and communism. They’ll claim till the end of time that no one has implemented the truest version of it which would solve all of everyone’s problems with magic
- dilyevsky 3y agoWe know for sure it never meant “rebrand your sysadmins as devops/platform team and be done” that’s just how middle management tend to interpret things. They did the same with agile = scrum