Some call this phenomenon devops,
others agile system administration
Truth is that agile techniques used in development have an impact on the way operations organizes it work. Similar, operations and sysadmins are becoming programmers because of the virtualization and automation trend where everything is managed through an API.
So if you are a developer with a interest for system administration, or a sysadmin interested in development.
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P.S. If you think this is only theory , have a look at: