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1. pjmlp+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-07 09:17:07
As somone that switches between both roles, when doing DevOps (aka sysadmin in 21st century) even though there is more stress regarding dealing with infrastructure, there is a certain peace of mind being away from Scrum, Jira, milestones, and other stuff, versus plain shell scripts, sed, awk, grep and xargs, VMs up and down.

Or doing a plain set of scripts into a repo, instead of endless arguments how fit a module implemenents the onion and hexagonal architectures, clean code, or whatever is the trend in this year's architecture conferences.

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2. znpy+Ah[view] [source] 2025-12-07 13:07:45
>>pjmlp+(OP)
As another “devops-y” guy (I’m essentially a sysadmin, but i accept whatever job title is trending right now) i agree on everything. It’s nice to see (from a distance) all the bs developers have to endure on a daily basis knowing it doesn’t affect me much.

Also… a lot of that complexity is essentially self-inflicted.

I must say however: “devops” is completely different from what old-school system administration used to be.

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