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An opinionated glossary of computer science terms for front-end developers. Written by Dan Abramov.
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WTF is 'dev ops'? #175

Open kawilliams8 opened 4 years ago

kawilliams8 commented 4 years ago

How is it a different career path than developer?

mihirk commented 4 years ago

This is probably one of the most debated and misunderstood term in software. DevOps started off as a concept where the developers themselves will hold some responsibility and contributions to the runtime infrastructure, rather than just have an absolute disconnect between application developers and infrastructure engineers, DevOps, proposes that Application Developers pick up some amount of know-how and contribute towards the infrastructure which provides a runtime for their application. There are advantages and disadvantages to the above like with any other approach.

But the term devops ended up being misconstrued as and being used a popular reference for Engineers who work on Infrastructure. So if you see a job saying DevOps engineer it basically means Infrastructure Engineer, mostly in an organisational setup which doesn't do "DevOps" as defined above.