Anatoliy

What is missing?

If you have been working in IT for such a long time, you probably know that this all is not really new. What many don’t know is that teenage Bill Gates started his IT career as a “devops engineer” writing and managing code on mainframes. In these times, companies had to write their own code because nobody would sell it to them. Dev and ops were just the same thing. Then Micro-Soft (as it was spelled at that time) created the software market and dev and ops were separated.

In the cloud, we have now the same situation as previously on mainframes. Companies like Netflix had to write their own code because nobody would sell them the software needed for a streaming company and devops was born. But as more streaming companies pop up, it is only a matter of time until someone will offer this kind software on the market and even Netflix might then separate dev and ops once again simply because it is cheaper to automate by buying software instead of “manually” writing all the code by yourself.

Of course, many new fascinating technologies have been invented since the mainframe era, IaC being one of them. Thus, if you don’t already live in a nursing home, suffering from dementia, I recommend staying involved simply because it is more fun to code than feeding ducks and waisting time on Netflix. Being retired is really no excuse.