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This article is absolute BS.

Multi-tenant, blue green deploys, infrastructure as code..

There are layers and layers of new tools and vendor specific infra required for the cloud. Previously I just needed a server, a git repo and a jenkins job.. now I need 4 services with different apis, roles, rights, a jenkins job and 3 different templating languages like terraform or ansible.

No software engineer is going to want to do ALL of that, and if you do.. you should be scratching your head if you're really developing actually business value rather than castles in the sky. Its nice to have new toys.. but if customers are still calling your colleages that crucial things like invoicing or ordering is still broken.. than there is no way to justify weeks of research and development on ops tools before solving athe actual problem ( which would just take hours previously.)

So yeah, we actually need more devops people if we really want to keep those new services so that software engineers can actually keep engineering software itself, else everything slows down.