Linux Administration Cookbook

The Ops versus DevOps Wars

DevOps as a word has been misunderstood, abused, and twisted by recruiters everywhere. 

Go to the subreddit for DevOps (https://old.reddit.com/r/devops) and you'll see DevOps referred to as a "movement," which is what it was originally intended to be.

A contraction of Development and Operations, DevOps is supposed to be a methodology that combines the principles of software development with traditional IT operations. 

However, we live in the real world, and while it might be fun for you to shout "DevOps isn't a job title!" at the recruiter on the other end of the phone (don't do this), it doesn't make the winds of change any weaker.

I've been called a DevOps engineer, and I know many other people who have too. ...