[njitbew]

Why so negative? You don't _have_ to do all of that, but as a software engineer you are in the unique position in which you're able to do a bit of all of that _if you want to_. It's like saying: why should I do operations work when I'm a developer. But then DevOps became a thing and every developer was suddenly also an operations guy. Being able to pick up different roles is an extremely valuable skill, and you're limiting yourself if you're drawing an imaginary boundary between technical and non-technical things.

[g051051]

So-called "DevOps" falls into this as well. Not enough Ops staff? Just put the devs on call, too. They can still do all of their normal work in addition to all the ops stuff.

I look forward to when DevOps stops being "a thing".