[agentultra]

> what people call DevOps these days is just a nightmare.

I agree! It's taken on a, "you'll know it when you see it," kind of definition and it's hard to pinpoint what "DevOps" is and whether your organization is practising it.

And so I've often seen it become a veneer for the original "silos" it was meant to break down: those handful of developers who still want nothing to do with managing their code and services in production get to throw code over the wall and someone else gets to hold the pager and keep it running, make it fast, etc.

In other words, the company hires "devops" which becomes a new title for "system administrator," and everything stays the same.

Platform engineering, devops, it's all evolving... but some things never seem to change.