I really loath that part of this industry; I spent over a decade in it and the only tangible thing I've taken away from it is that the problems these philosophi

I really loath that part of this industry; I spent over a decade in it and the only tangible thing I've taken away from it is that the problems these philosophies and practices set out to solve are derivative of two things: - Infrastructure is very often fundamentally disconnected from the product roadmap and thus is under constant cycles of cost control - The culture of systems administration does not respond well to change or evolution. This is a function that is built around shepherding systems - whether at scale or as pets. Long way of saying the gamut isn't that corporations will ever be free of systems administration any more than they'll be freed from software engineering. It is far easier to optimize software than it is to optimize infrastructure though, which is why it feels like someone is coming after you. To make matters more complex, a lot of software today overlaps with the definition of infrastructure.