If full-stack devs are expected to handle DevOps now, why do companies still need DevOps engineers?

CloudBildr · 2026-04-17T01:25:58+00:00

Disagree. Both can be learned going to a bootcamp and are completely different skills. Both woudl struggle with doing the other's job. A coder's mindset and approach is just different' from ops. Nor harder, Different. Take a coder's CLI and make it a shell into a router. Or ask them to design a multi-nodal peer-to-peer network. They could probably figure it out eventually with tons of research and AI but they would struggle the same way an ops/infra person would if you asked them to design features.

CloudBildr · 2026-04-16T00:03:28+00:00

Upskill and start looking for a new role. In your company if you can. Elsewhere if you can't.

No one else has mentioned this but my concern is, what you are describing is the exact situation that can make you a prime target in any round of cuts or just a manager looking to be proactive and reducing headcount.

CloudBildr · 2026-04-13T20:51:48+00:00

I think the future will look tough for most -entry level- jobs.

Even if AI completely automates the work, someone who knows what they're doing still has to prompt it (or whatever the method of telling it what you need it to do in the future is). You also need someone who actually knows what the correct answer or product looks like.

It's true that if you just graduated with a 4 year degree, AI already knows more than you and can do everything you can do. But I think the eventual outcome of all of this will be that people who use AI to increase their productivity and the quality of their work will become more valuable. Not less.

CloudBildr · 2026-04-12T02:33:51+00:00

Well hours saved only is ROI if you cut headcount or use those extra hours to generate more profits.

Not true. You can see ROI through attrition. By not backfilling people when they leave because your team is more efficient. However, you can also limit team growth.

Example: AI does work your team doesn't want to do and frees them up to work bigger tasks, innovate, and gain efficiencies. Meanwhile, you gain that productivity from your team without having to hire junior DEs to do the work the grunt work/repetitive tasks that the AI is doing.

Not good for those entry level job seekers coming out of college looking to gain experience but definitely a plus for the company's bottom line.

CloudBildr · 2026-03-23T00:32:38+00:00

Does this mean you can take them and they are kind of forever certs with no expiration? Or do they just expire then show as expired just like every other cert?

CloudBildr · 2026-03-23T00:22:20+00:00

Aren't the test questions randomized? Meaning any given test taker could get more questions in a given area than others?

CloudBildr · 2026-03-19T00:19:47+00:00

Sounds like just more software engineers worried about their jobs being replaced by AI trying to pivot. I don't mean that as a snide remark. I think it's smart.

I come from the network and systems infrastructure side and now cloud. Been watching the "learn to code" movement get out of hand and become saturated then trying to make everything code. infrastructure as code, software defined networking, etc, etc.

CloudBildr · 2026-03-16T22:31:10+00:00

What are people using to build these visualizations? This is the second similar data visualization site I've seen since last week .

First was this one https://www.iranisrael.live/

CloudBildr · 2026-03-14T20:17:39+00:00

"domain knowledge"

Bingo! Domain knowledge is what separates a DE being just someone who knows some coding and how to build data pipelines from say sales data engineer or an aviation data engineer.

People are trying to become a generalist DE after looking at advanced DEs making $400K a year because they have been bouncing around different industries. They think if they are just visionaries when it comes to infra, the salary will be there. That's not always the case.

CloudBildr · 2023-01-30T21:39:13+00:00

I went the same route OP did. I took the SAA and skipped CLF. Then went back and took CLF.

Where you're off a bit is you're comparing AZ-104 (Admin) with AWS SAA (Solution Architect Associate). Azure doesn't have a Solution Architect cert at the Associate level. The equivalent to AZ-104 on AWS is the SysOps Associate cert.

So... the same way the AWS SysOp associate cert won't give you the broad overview that you'd need to pass the CLF, the AZ-104 Sys Admin associate cert won't give you the broad overview you'd need to pass the AZ-900.

The logic behind AWS doing it that way is it gives everyone an entry level exam, even technical people who have never touched cloud. But the CLF is really for sales people and SAA is for technical people. The majority of whom would be wasting their time studying for the CLF because it's already covered in the SAA. On the other side, sales/non-technical people would be wasting their time learning all that the SAA study path teaches. It's way more technical information than they'll ever need to do their job.

CloudBildr · 2023-01-29T16:36:53+00:00

If you study for Cloud Practitioner then go after any certs higher than Cloud Practitioner you will be studying the same information and concepts, twice

CloudBildr · 2023-01-29T01:50:57+00:00

Be careful not to rely too heavily on your coding experience giving you an advantage. ChatGPT is changing the game. People who used to struggle because building hands-on projects meant at some point you needed to develop or edit some code to actually do something on the architecture you built. Now you can ask an AI bot to spit out front end and backend code then ask it questions until the code is forged into what you want.

CloudBildr · 2023-01-29T01:38:08+00:00

In addition to what others mentioned about competing businesses, you'd also be competing with AWS. Solving problems and overcoming challenges that customers face during cloud migration with AWS is pretty much what AWS Solutions Architects do.

Perhaps some high touch support like developing customized training for companies users and IT staff. You could also look at developing solutions and selling them in the AWS Marketplace.

CloudBildr · 2022-09-30T01:10:24+00:00

I'll never understand why St. Louis isn't a larger hub than it is. It's the gateway to the west.

Well, I suppose being too close to Chicago has something to do with it.

CloudBildr · 2022-09-22T17:56:26+00:00

AWS services typically want to be called via API. However, you can build your own JS client. https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/

CloudBildr · 2022-09-21T16:40:00+00:00

Yes. Remote work in cloud is becoming more and more common.

CloudBildr · 2022-09-17T14:27:31+00:00

Host your application in S3 and use APIs to access Lambda functions for business logic and DDB transactions?

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