Re:How 'DevOps' is Killing the Developer (2014)
by serge2k on Monday August 31, 2015 @03:11AM
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not gonna watch, but developers who work on release tooling are just a category of developer.
The article is inflammatory to a degree, but it does make sense applied to groups rather to individuals. Devs do have to learn a lot of the skills the other groups do, but it doesn't go the other way. There are still obviously valuable skills that a DBA or sysadmin will have and your average dev won't. It doesn't change the fact that, as groups, I'd rather have a group of devs be forced into DBA and Sysadmin tasks than the other way around.
The article is inflammatory to a degree, but it does make sense applied to groups rather to individuals. Devs do have to learn a lot of the skills the other groups do, but it doesn't go the other way. There are still obviously valuable skills that a DBA or sysadmin will have and your average dev won't. It doesn't change the fact that, as groups, I'd rather have a group of devs be forced into DBA and Sysadmin tasks than the other way around.