The naming of these technologies and paradigms is unfortunate in my view, it's now made Ops sound like a bad thing. Noops, Serverless?
As a long time DevOps / Sys Admin / Generalist I feel disappointed lately because there seemed to be a very brief golden age, which in my opinion was DevOps done right, and that was just getting polished and accepted, then it feels like for little good reason except for marketing or something, that was just thrown out the window ? It was really getting results in my last org, basically meeting half-way with devs felt like the sweet spot and now it's going to extremes.
I was really into investing my time into the DevOps / SRE role, now it just feels demotivating, as any good Ops knows it's a tough job that requires dedication, but is it worth the effort anymore ? Will people still want to hire ops? Should I just move into Software Engineering (which I can do), full time ?
I think she hit the nail on the head to be honest.
I get the impression the problem is that it's with ops/admins as it is with safety inspectors. When they do their job right, nothing spectacularly fails, and thus management starts wondering why they have this salary expense on the quarterly spreadsheet.
developers on the other hand go hand in hand with marketing, and thus is easily noticed when they do their thing right.
As a long time DevOps / Sys Admin / Generalist I feel disappointed lately because there seemed to be a very brief golden age, which in my opinion was DevOps done right, and that was just getting polished and accepted, then it feels like for little good reason except for marketing or something, that was just thrown out the window ? It was really getting results in my last org, basically meeting half-way with devs felt like the sweet spot and now it's going to extremes.
I was really into investing my time into the DevOps / SRE role, now it just feels demotivating, as any good Ops knows it's a tough job that requires dedication, but is it worth the effort anymore ? Will people still want to hire ops? Should I just move into Software Engineering (which I can do), full time ?
I think she hit the nail on the head to be honest.