[dijit]

the problem with the "original idea" is nobody can decide what it actually means.

The interpretation that I see banded about comes from the 10+ deploys a day talk from flickr, where they said having a team of diverse backgrounds was better than having an individual.

Somehow in that zeitgeist sysadmins got rebranded devops, so in that case it makes sense to have a "devops engineer".

[dilyevsky]

We know for sure it never meant “rebrand your sysadmins as devops/platform team and be done” that’s just how middle management tend to interpret things. They did the same with agile = scrum

[coffeebeqn]

It’s the same as agile and communism. They’ll claim till the end of time that no one has implemented the truest version of it which would solve all of everyone’s problems with magic