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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by eropple on Monday May 08, 2017 @07:57PM (#14296654)
How exactly does that follow?

I'm a "devops engineer", and fully half of the concern around what I do is "how do we make this maintainable and know when maintenance is necessary?".

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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by toomuchtodo on Monday May 08, 2017 @08:02PM (#14296674)
The death of devops/sysadmins/infrastructure engineers has been greatly exaggerated within the startup scene.
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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by eropple on Monday May 08, 2017 @08:32PM (#14296815)
Agreed, though I think it somewhat depends on your definition. Most sysadmins at my clients have been uneasy at the pervasive sort of automation that we like; a lot of it is much more dev-heavy than a "modern" sysadmin (not your graybearded Perl wizard) seems comfortable with. Everybody else? Business is pretty great.
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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by deskamess on Monday May 08, 2017 @08:17PM (#14296741)
That sentiment has actually been stated? I honestly thought it was on the uptrend...
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