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by toomuchtodo 3474 days ago
I think you misunderstand me.

Yes, sysadmins have always written the glue between disparate systems, implemented monitoring, etc using bash, and now more than ever, python. But now DevOps roles are expected to (in my experience) lean closer to closer to application reliability engineers; not only must you perform admin tasks, and write tools to automate infra tasks, but you must also dive into app code at a moments notice when shit is broken.
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dozzie 3474 days ago
Well, OK, but this was expected from sysadmins as well. It was always sysadmin who is responsible that the application died, no matter the real reason. Where do you think the idea of putting programmers on call to reduce crashes came from?
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toomuchtodo 3474 days ago
> It was always sysadmin who is responsible that the application died, no matter the real reason.

Out of the last 15 years of tech experience, I've only seen this be the case in the last 3 years, where the sysadmin/Devops engineer was required to have more ownership beyond "your application is broken, I've restarted it and notified the developer".

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dozzie 3474 days ago
Funny. I have seen it for last ten years. And it was not that rare that the sysadmin knew more about system's internals than its programmer.
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