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by sph 1156 days ago
The previous generation deployed their simple Django and Rails apps onto overpriced Heroku.

Systems administration has died when it started being called DevOps and got enormously overengineered to the point the golden handcuffs are the only option for pure or beginner developers. When the pathologically lazy sysadmin in a black tshirt got replaced by the ever busy and corporate friendly DevOps types going to fancy conferences.

As someone that started as a Linux/UNIX sysadmin and is having an interview for a DevOps position in an hour, I wonder when and why did this shift appear? When did sysadmins find a new job title on their door? Must've been around 2012 or so.

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Good luck with the interview!