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gaius on July 27, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: DevOps Engineering: Who does your automation?

40 years ago IBM called these guys "systems programmers". That this is a new concept to some people is symptomatic of a wider problem in the industry: everything needs to be shiny and new so every 10 years we reinvent the wheel with new jargon.

blueben on July 28, 2010 [–]

DevOps is not just "writing automation tools". If that's all you're getting out of this, you're missing 90% of what's going on.

starkfist on July 28, 2010 | [–]

What else is it, then?

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