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by emmelaich 2509 days ago
The best always did.

Many of the rest did, but not high quality scripts, and only in shell; not perl or python or tcl or ...

The lower rungs of sysadmin were happy to point and click on guis and lug and plug hardware.

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Yes, "DevOps" is basically an attempt to weed out the best sysadmins from the rest in the job market, because if you look for 'an experienced sysadmin' you'd usually find a guy who laid cables and replaced mice for 1000 Windows workstations instead of 10.