[zippitydoodah68]

And you are definitely not a sysad or any sort of sysadmin. The core mission of a sysad is to build the best environment possible while restricting that environment.

You seem to be the sort of developer that developers love and the sort of sysadmin that gets fired in the first week Just my .02 after two and a half decades.

Not to say that you are entirely wrong or your approach doesn't have merit in the new world (especially SV). But it doesn't work for sysadmins and production environments anywhere but your bubble. Not yet.

[eropple]

Well, you're right, I'm not a sysadmin. I pervasively automate, which often sidelines sysadmins, when it doesn't make them redundant. I write code and I don't touch production machines except in extremity, neither of which apply to most (though by no means all) of the people I know who want to call themselves a sysadmin.

Anyway, the core mission of anybody touching the stack is to enable the business to achieve its goals. Nothing, and I mean nothing, more. "Restricting that environment" is appropriate in some environments, and a number of my clients bring me in to help with that. Facilitating developer velocity--and, yes, developers do tend to like me, because I'm good at this while achieving goals around security and uptime--is appropriate in, probably, more. Pays better, too, even if it shouldn't.

[zippitydoodah68]

It's not that sysadmins cannot do the work you are rightfully proud of. If there are two basic things that differentiates your statements from those of a traditional sysadmin it is these.

1. Design. 2. Discipline.

Where these two values are dispensable long term devops and the new world shine through. I've worked in both worlds and the only mistake is assuming one size fits all.

[zippitydoodah68]

In general you seem like an absurd sort of creature. Neither here nor there. Bragging about your facility and business velocity. Everything you claim to do sysadmins were doing in 98 and with equal velocity and adequate coverage.

There were guys like this that were there before and helped everyone along: https://www.computerhope.com/people/don_libes.htm

[mmt]

At the risk of being too "meta", although I agree with what I believe is your point about good sysadmins having been advancing automation (and otherwise keeping business needs in mind), I worry that you're distracting a reader from that point by what reads as an ad-hominem attack in your first sentence.

I'm still not certain what point you were trying to make with "neithere here nor there", however.