I disagree with your disagreement. There's nothing we do under the umbrella of "DevOps" that wasn't part of competent service ownership twenty years ago. I read your article and the point that stood out for me was the notion that the skills to drive tools like chef, puppet are somehow new and different. But I know better, because although I use those tools today, back in the day we used cfengine and a bunch of declaratively/injectively configured shell & perl scripts to achieve basically exactly the same effect.
Back then we called this "systems administration". But we were most definitely working with developers and running the SDLC across silos.
Back then we called this "systems administration". But we were most definitely working with developers and running the SDLC across silos.
It's nothing new, it's just got a label.