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by pm90 1885 days ago
It’s true that we’ve made a ton of progress. But I LOVE it when developers demand more and I will bet good money that it’s only a matter of time when what the author describes will actually happen.

We’ve been making tremendous strides in making production software systems easy and accessible for developers (and not sysadmins) to understand and operate. We’re currently in the stage where the devops principle has been somewhat realized; devs love the ability to deploy when they want but absolutely hate that infrastructure provisioning takes so long compared to the tools they use for software development. This is a good thing! I want more devs to demand this; someone may actually solve it.

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> We’ve been making tremendous strides in making production software systems easy and accessible for developers (and not sysadmins) to understand and operate.

in my experience developers are terrible at doing operations. (for good reason mind you).

Devops only really became possible because a lot of operational problems have been outsourced to cloud providers, but they still persist. Or do developers also want to build the networks which provide fault tolerance, redundancy and scalability while also building software?

Running a large, multi tenant system for different workloads takes a mind boggling amount of work and skill, not to mention deep understanding of how networks and systems operate in detail and at scale.