Ask HN: Why was system admin re-branded as devops?
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Understand the evolution of system administration to DevOps and its implications on career development
Action Steps
- Research the history of system administration and its transformation into DevOps
- Explore the key principles of DevOps, such as continuous integration and delivery
- Analyze how DevOps has changed the job market and required skills for system administrators and developers
- Evaluate your own skills and experience in relation to the DevOps landscape
- Update your skills to include scalable design, unit testing, and agile development methodologies
Who Needs to Know This
Developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers can benefit from understanding the shift from traditional system administration to DevOps, as it affects their roles and responsibilities
Key Insight
💡 The shift from system administration to DevOps reflects the increasing importance of collaboration, automation, and continuous delivery in software development
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Understand the evolution of system administration to DevOps and its implications on career development
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I am thirty seven years old who has been in the field for 11 years on-and-off. This just gives you only an idea of when I started. I have experience in writing web software for various commercial applications. I don't have experience with scalable design, unit testing, continuous development, or agile development methodologies. I am comfortable with the mechanics of writing small programs. In most places, I would be considered a junior developer having some mastery over smaller scale work before delving deep into software production and design topics. This confuses several people when they see my years of experience, especially recruiters who usually have to cope with their own limited sense of technical knowledge to accurately fit workers into proper roles. Seems like I have greatly missed out on a part of the pipeline that has creeping into more developer jobs, and I (possibly a bad luck thing) somehow has continued to evade this invasion through particular jobs that don't
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