Knowledge silos and expertise are two sides of the same coin. From full stack engineering to DevOps practitioner, our industry loves to pretend everyone can do everything. We’re an industry of hobbyists. We love to tinker. I don’t know if we are fooling ourselves or if the industry has been exploiting our hobby-driven nature, but it’s time for DevOps to get thrown out of an airlock.
Yes, you’re completely right. However for the general public / most companies DevOps only became a thing when they moved into Docker and realized things were so out of hand at that point they had to hire specific people to handle the issue… then proceeded to call them DevOps (among other things). And yes, this completely subverts the DevOps philosophy as it got kind of “productized”.