Post #2176699
2026-05-06 16:44 UTC
Replies (4)
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@pgo@mastodon.uno 2026-05-06 20:30
@rfc1036@hostux.social may we call OpsDev those sysadmins who found themselves writing code? dev by accident...ops!
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@agowa338@chaos.social 2026-05-07 07:38
@rfc1036@hostux.social I see more system admins that were pushed into doing developers jobs than developers that were pushed into doing system admin stuff though...
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@valhalla@social.gl-como.it 2026-05-07 10:31
@rfc1036@hostux.social I thought that developers were called DevOps by managers who wanted to stop paying for sysadmins
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@rrwo@infosec.exchange 2026-05-07 18:22
@rfc1036@hostux.social I don't know any developers who believed they could "do without" sysadmins. I know of many who did both roles because their teams were too small to differentiate. (And sometimes that was due to managers who have probably moved on to vibe coding....) There's nothing more that a "full stack developer" wants to do than drop a software project for a couple of days while they diagnose problems with a samba share only to end up replacing a faulty network card and oh wait where was I with that project.... But DevOps originally meant applying software development techniques to operations: repeatable system deployment and configuration by scripts that are kept in version control, with tests. (It makes sense when you're an op in charge of a data centre with dozens, maybe hundreds or thousands of machines.)