[sseagull]

This is one thing I feel conflicted about. On one hand, it is a lot easier to do those things (VMs, docker, DBs, etc).

On the other hand, now a regular run-of-the-mill developer is also supposed to be knowledgeable about sooo much stuff that is not so directly related to their code. As you say, sometimes it’s nice to be able to hand that off to specialists - a person can’t be good at everything.

[unforeseen9991]

I suppose this is the void that DevOps is trying to fill

[Viliam1234]

That word seems to mean different things to different people.

I have heard on internet explanations like "it means that developers and operations are communicating more and working together as one big team", but so far every company I worked at has interpreted it like "it means that in addition to developing the application, you are also supposed to do the operations".