>> But most people I know in the "DevOps scene" are nothing like that.
This feels almost universally like the case (unless you "started out" in devops, I guess). It's a catch-all for everything infra. A "good devops" (IMO) will know the ins/outs of all components of the product/business and (more importantly) how it runs and reacts in the real world (and not in the ivory tower/developers' laptop).
This feels almost universally like the case (unless you "started out" in devops, I guess). It's a catch-all for everything infra. A "good devops" (IMO) will know the ins/outs of all components of the product/business and (more importantly) how it runs and reacts in the real world (and not in the ivory tower/developers' laptop).