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by oooyay 122 days ago
> They don’t know what’s DevOps or what’s an SRE.

Oh my goodness, most of the people with that title don't know what it is. I hate to say it because I spent like 10 years of my life in reliability, but it's largely an industry of cargo culting around two books and a bunch of memetic blog posts postured as learned architecture. The best performing teams end up ditching much of this and crafting their own strategy based on their own problems and their own engineers and leaders perspectives of them.

I'd reply to the rest of this piece in much the same strategy. The things the author is clinging to are only gone if you, as the reader, accept that there is only one true way to do them. That doesn't mean there aren't new problems or old-problems-made-new, it simply means we need to put our thinking caps on and adapt. It is increasingly apparent that a playbook, memes, and copying other people/companies strategies will not get you far in our new future.