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DevOps is Not a Synonym for Application Development

• gjvc 12y ago
  devops is the new xslt
  • roryokane 12y ago
    In what way?
• collyw 12y ago
  Yet another buzzword. Somewhere between sysadmin and developer. In 11 years, I have done a bit of everything, mainly database development, these days with a Django front end. I can do a bit of JavaScript / HTML / CSS. I can configure a web server, set up a linux box, compile install software. I have automated tasks using Jenkins. Does that make me DevOps? Or am I still a dev?
  • leonidlm 12y ago
    Good point! It makes you a fullstack developer for sure! :) I think that a buzzword can be a nice way of communicating the expected role/output between an employee and the employer. When you advertise that you need a DevOps engineer, you are actually saying that you need someone with a good knowledge of configuration management, cloud operations, good coding skills, etc... (I noted only the tech skills, but the same goes for cultural traits too). As a "DevOps professional" I unfortunately see that this buzzword is currently being overused. I hope that it is a temporary phase...