Speaker unverified: uncertainty

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…I posted about the fact that I’m talking to you on Reddit, and there’s a lot of wonderful questions. Somebody mentioned that I should ask you about DevOps. Can you explain what DevOps is? Is it a kind of special ops of programmers, is it SEAL Team Six of developers? What’s DevOps? Can you define… Are you a DevOps engineer? Well, people keep telling me DevOps isn’t real. There’s actually, you want platform engineers, cloud engineers, infra engineers. I just often think the easiest way, if we’re doing just some basic nomenclature, it’s just DevOps are the people that make sure that when you launch a service and all of that, it doesn’t just disappear. Right? It’s all the backbone of being able to operate something at scale. Really, if you think about it, if you’re just writing a mom-and-pa website, people that do PHP that are doing WordPress and all that, they’re going to build something, they’re going to hand it off to, I don’t know, Linode, DigitalOcean, some company. They don’t really need a really complicated build, deployment, all this. It’s just someone with a simple website so they can sell their goods. And so they don’t really need that. And so that’s kind of how I think of a DevOps, is when things need to scale, that’s the person you hire. Yeah, those people are actually amazing.…

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