When I look at younger generations that didn’t grow up largely offline like I did, I feel slightly... Tagged with devops, beginners, learning, career.

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The post discusses the history and evolution of DevOps, questions whether it has delivered on its promises, explores how people end up in DevOps roles, and considers the future of the field.

Why nobody grows up wanting to be a DevOps engineer

How DevOps Started and it’s original Promise

How do people end up in DevOps in the first place?

The case for generalists, tinkerers, and the concept of glue

Reposting my DEV comment here:
Oh my… this is such a good post. A topic I’ve been discussing with every single person that told me they “want to work with computers”.
Low bar for entrance, huge number of opportunities, large number of technologies to learn / work with, good compensation… and more.
I’ve been a DevOps (Sr. DevOps &amp; Lead now) for 5 years and in the 5 years of tinkering I managed to be part of so many areas of CS:
<ul>
<li>Infrastructure (on-prem and cloud)</li>
<li>Code (JS/TS, Python, Go, C#, jsonnet, and probably more…)</li>
<li>Databases (Relational, Non-Relational, Cache)</li>
<li>Management</li>
<li>Architecture</li>
<li>Sales</li>
</ul>
If I have to touch up on every little thing I had actively been a part of during many projects, the list would feel “unreal”. But that is the essence of being a tinkerer (and in my opinion too - DevOps) - you get to do it all.
And the best part of it is I got into DevOps from System Administration (which is arguably now called Site Reliability Engineering). No long interviews, no portfolios, nothing too special other than a mobile game in Unity which I coded in school with a few Youtube videos, and a few Udemy certificates.
I don’t even know how to express how I feel about this post. This is honestly the best piece of written content I’ve read the past year or so.

As a software Engineer, most companies now a days are looking for “with DevOps experience.”

I hear the DevOps side of the force, it calls me