It isn't dead, just companies refuse to implement DevOps philosophies because they assume it adds too much friction. When things run some and DevOps appears it

It isn't dead, just companies refuse to implement DevOps philosophies because they assume it adds too much friction. When things run some and DevOps appears it isn't doing anything they fire operational engineers. Months later things go to shit because they thought they were not doing anything. Operational engineers or Site Reliability Engineers are essential because they consume toil work which would otherwise be there to distract a developer from developing. No one wants to solve pipelines and delivery methods and ensure stability and deliverability of code. Pipelines need as much continual development as a developer who makes the profitable applications.