> The sysadmins weren't eliminated; they were reborn as DevOps engineers with fancy new job titles and substantially higher compensation packages.
God I felt like I was the only one that noticed. People would say 'DevOps can code' as if that made DevOps a new thing, but being able to automate anything was a core principle of the SAGE-style systems admin in the 90s / early 2000s.
God I felt like I was the only one that noticed. People would say 'DevOps can code' as if that made DevOps a new thing, but being able to automate anything was a core principle of the SAGE-style systems admin in the 90s / early 2000s.