It's interesting from a job market standpoint how little incentive there is to learn the basics when more and more we are seeing developers being made responsible for ops and admin tasks.
As someone who’s been hiring for both sides, I see this reflected in candidates more and more. The good devs rarely know ops, and the good ops rarely code well. For our “platform” teams, we end up just hiring good devs and teaching them ops. I think the people that are really good at both often end up working at the actual cloud providers or DevOps startups.
The ops guy has an opportunity to level up his coding since the devs are doing code reviews for him and devs have an opportunity level up their ops knowledge because they are working with someone who understands what hand how platform should be built.
"The cloud" is both a technical solution for flexible workload requirements, and a political solution to allow others to continue delivering when IT is quoting them 3 months of "prep work" for setting up a dev environment and 2 to 4 weeks for a single SSL certificate.
As a consultant, I am confronted to hostile IT requirements daily. Oftentimes, departments hiring us end up setting and training their own Ops teams outside of IT. despite leading to incredible redundancy, that's often credited as a huge success for that department, because of the gained flexibility.
So when problems do occur, I can make some pretty good guesses on what's wrong before I actually know for sure.