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by ipaddr 970 days ago
One is DevOps and one is a programmer
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That didn’t really clarify for me, which is which? What is DevOps to you? (Seems to be different for everyone)

The wiki for “programmer” has “software developer, a software engineer, a programmer or a coder” as interchangeable terms in the first sentence.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer

They’re both programmers and you can’t “be devops”.
The vast majority of my colleagues would say "that person is a devops" instead of "that person does devops", which I don't get at all. I've assumed it's some deeply rooted misunderstanding of language (my colleagues are eastern european) that has taken hold across the entire local industry.