[hack_edu]

I don't understand where this sysadmin is coming from. From a practical perspective, what's the point to drive the wedge between DevOps and 'traditional' sysadmin work. He's just critiquing the work of fellow administrators. They are BOTH sysadmins. Just as higher and higher level languages come out, higher and higher level abstractions of administration are required. With greater complexity of systems, more administration is necessary.

Deployment is so much more complicated today than it was just a few years ago. What we call 'DevOps' is really just a subset of systems administration work. Every developer (yes, sysadmins are developers) has specialties regardless of the term of the week.

Edit: Care for a reply with that downvote?

[cpfohl]

It wasn't my downvote, but I'll bet it's because the article is satire and your response didn't quite catch that. ;)