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		CaveTech 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do These things are not nearly equivalent. It’s writing code, it’s not software engineering.

SlightlyLeftPad 3 months ago [–]

Correct, it’s systems engineering.

verdverm 3 months ago | [–]

It's configuration management, systems engineering is low level imo

SlightlyLeftPad 3 months ago | | [–]

I think you have it backwards. Systems engineering is the big picture discipline of designing & managing complex systems while config management is a specific process within that.

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