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> As a side-note, is any tech group more keen on title inflation than SREs? In the time I've been a developer / software-engineer I've seen sys admin, DevOps, Cloud Ops, SRE... it's literally the same people. That's not the fault of people doing the work, that's what the industry is doing to us. I get increasingly irritated with the myth that 'DevOps' are any different than the sysadmins of 10 years ago. "But DevOps can code", yes, so could sysadmins, in fact, terraform, ansible, vagrant, saltstack, chef, puppet etc;etc;etc are all made by people who held the title of sysadmin when they were written. In fact the term "DevOps" was originally from a conference, where the idea was that "we can do systems administration in an agile way" -- NOTHING to do with coding, everything to do with getting developers and sysadmins working closely together in an iterative fashion. I would personally be very happy being called a sysadmin, but doing so is career suicide, because we as an industry have decided that sysadmins are somehow braindead, and that you really need "SREs" or "DevOps" -- despite the fact that these are the same people. What gets my goat even more is that people hate on sysadmins because of corporate culture, echos of centralised IT organisations that said no to everything. But we're doing exactly the same thing with these new titles now. It's a joke. |