Sometimes, the only way to survive tech culture is to laugh at it.

Recently, I stumbled upon a meme that hit way too close to home. Like, if you've ever touched a bash script, configured a VPC, or even just nodded in agreement during a “high availability” meeting — you’re gonna feel this deep in your soul.

The meme features four Marvel heroes representing four tech roles, and honestly, it’s too accurate.

DevOps Engineer

First up, we got DevOps, repped by none other than Thor himself — big muscles, big hammer, even bigger solo energy.
DevOps engineers walk into every project like,

"Oh you need CI/CD? Oh you need k8s clusters? Oh you need monitoring? Bet. I got this. Alone."

They’re building pipelines at 2AM, scripting terraform modules mid-flight, and convincing themselves that "it's just a small hotfix" when they’re really rebuilding half the infra.
Thor thinks he doesn’t need anyone else — just like every DevOps bro hammering away at Jenkinsfiles thinking they'll achieve world peace.

💬 Reality check? You can't do it all, King. But we admire the hustle.

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Cloud Engineer

Next is our boy, Ant-Man, playing the Cloud Engineer — which is just chef’s kiss perfect.
Cloud Engineers literally live for scaling.
Auto-scaling groups? Scaling databases vertically and horizontally? Burstable instances? Spot pricing?
If it doesn’t scale, it’s dead to them.

They treat Terraform outputs like sacred scrolls and think "high availability" is a personality trait.

"Bro why would you need a database if you can just scale your read replicas, duh."

Meanwhile, the app is still crashing because someone hardcoded localhost in production. 🧍‍♂️

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Systems Engineer

Enter: Systems Engineers — the Tony Starks of the tech world.
These guys are out here building insane sht*, making servers dance, automating OS-level magic, and customizing kernels because “it’s more efficient this way.” (??)

Ask a Systems Engineer what they’re working on and they'll hit you with:

"Oh just a tiny side project — a quantum-optimized scheduler that reduces boot time by 0.000001%."

Meanwhile, no one asked, but we’re still lowkey impressed.

They've got racks in their garage, think "uptime" is sexier than abs, and measure worth in uptime percentages.

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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Finally, the SREs. Same Thor energy... but now battle-worn and with an eye patch — because experience.
SREs love to pretend they’re not DevOps.

"No no no, I'm an SRE. It's totally different. We use SLIs, SLOs, error budgets... we have standards, man."

Bro, you’re still writing the same bash scripts and fixing the same janky Kubernetes clusters.
Just now you have fancier words to justify why the site went down at 3AM.

SREs are like that friend who definitely was a hipster before it was cool, but now insists he’s just “alternative.”
You’re still in the same boat as the rest of us, mate.

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Conclusion

At the end of the day, whether you're carrying a hammer, a shrinking suit, a powered exoskeleton, or just a pager... we're all in the same chaotic, beautiful mess called tech.

You’re gonna cry, you’re gonna laugh, you’re gonna scream internally when the CI pipeline fails again for reasons that make no sense.

But hey — at least memes like this one remind us we’re not alone. 🫶