[chazu]

You hit on the most important thing about DevOps: DevOps is not a job title - as any DevOps person will tell you. Obviously it _is_ a job title, but what they mean is that it isn't supposed to be one. Its supposed to be a way of looking at the SDLC to reduce friction, decrase siloing, and approach shipping and building software into production with the same SWE discipline that feature work is given. The failure of the industry to actually grok this has resulted in the re-framing of DevOps as SRE - which is also misunderstood by 99.9% of engineers and managers - and more helpfully, in the rise of the Platform Engineering meme. In my time as a platform engineer - or what devs call a 'DevOps Engineer' - which has never been my job title thankfully - I've found that people either think "DevOps" are wizards or drooling idiots. At the same time, however, many devs are unwilling or unable to consider the complexities of productionizing an application before those complexities cause delays. The point of DevOps was to catalyse cultural change, not to build a new silo for people to misunderstand and ignore.