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A lot of organizations simply renamed the functional area of "systems administration" or "systems engineering" to "DevOps," and at many of these places, "DevOps
by moandcompany 2y ago
A lot of organizations simply renamed the functional area of "systems administration" or "systems engineering" to "DevOps," and at many of these places, "DevOps" is the new name for the group that software developers will throw stuff over the fence to.
The issue with the above names is that they can be applied to a domain or area of practices, or an organizational boundary. In a non-trivial number of organizations, "DevOps" is viewed as a support entity for one or more software development teams, versus software development teams practicing "devops."
This applies to many of the *_Ops names in fashion during the past five years or so.
- znpy 2y agoAfter almost 10 years in the systems engineering / administration / devops / cloud etc space all I can say is: The biggest improvement that devops brought is that it made managers feel dumb, outdated and scared because they were not "doing devops" while everybody else was, so they kinda started listening to sysadmins and what they had to tell. Uh, devops engineers did not come out of nowhere. They did not come out of the ground like mushrooms. Most if not all the "devops engineers" i know are just former sysadmins. They were already willing to do whatever devops was supposed to be, it's just they they were largely ignored. Writing this I just realized that maybe the best way to obtain organizational change is to make management and upper management feel stupid and outdated. Interesting.
- steveBK123 2y agoHence they have all hired “head of AI” in last 18 months.
- moandcompany 2y ago"What is your AI strategy?" -> "We're hiring a Head of AI"
- steveBK123 2y agoIt’s the 2020s version of the old IBM line… No one ever got fired for hiring a head of AI.