DevOps

We never really needed ten thousand DevOps engineers. The market's not dying — it's clearing out the noise. When the dust settles, the builders will still be here.

Pipeline jockeys cranking YAML. Firefighting teams on endless rota. Developers throwing features over the wall. Call it SRE, call it Platform Engineering — if nobody owns production, it's just ops in a frock.

Most Kubernetes abstractions add complexity for complexity's sake. Operators are the exception — they encode operational knowledge into software and turn 'file a ticket and wait three days' into 'apply a YAML file and get a database in two minutes.'

Everyone preaches 'find vulnerabilities earlier.' The concept is sound. The execution is usually a disaster — every build fails on day one, exception lists grow longer than vulnerability lists, and security becomes a rubber stamp that makes everyone feel safe without actually being safe.

Azure DevOps Pipelines is the CI/CD system enterprise teams end up with because they're an Azure shop. Not because they evaluated the options. Not because they love it. Because it was already there.

The Infrastructure as Code wars are over. Terraform won. And yet enterprise teams are still clinging to vendor-native tooling like ARM templates and CloudFormation because 'it's supported by the vendor.' Supported doesn't mean good.