The difference is the Sys Admin don't know (or care) about the binaries produced by development. They simple configure a host, deploy it, and if they run into a

The difference is the Sys Admin don't know (or care) about the binaries produced by development. They simple configure a host, deploy it, and if they run into an issue, shoot it over to development to fix. In DevOps, sys admins are, at some point, actively working with the development team during development to understand the logic, and members of the development team are actively working with the ops teams to understand how the code is deployed. The goal is that sys admins can understand production errors, and developers get a sense for how their code is deployed.