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by jlgaddis 3502 days ago
> ... there is zero reason to assume the programmer of an application is more qualified to triage and remedy an outage than someone specializing in operations.

That's why we've got AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and so on, right? The programmer gets to deal with only their code and let someone else worry about the rest of the infrastructure.

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Unless you're talking about AWS lambda, all of those things still have software infrastructure that need system administrators.