[tinco]

We recently decided as a company that the horizontal responsibilities structure doesn't work well at all, at least not at small scale. This was not in the software/infra teams but in our operations but I think there's some general truth here. The more vertically responsible your teams are, the better the final product is, and the more inefficiencies and impedance mismatches you can track down and fix.

For us it meant that the data processing teams have been made part of the drone operators team, so whenever we fly a mission a photography/3d rendering expert will also be part of the team that operates the drone. On paper it's more expensive to have office workers in the field, but in practice it leads to fewer reflights and happier and more productive employees.

I imagine that for the software departments, it could mean that every app development team has at least one member that has good operating system and network infrastructure knowledge, and/or maybe database expertise so that the team as a whole can largely operate a feature largely without having to depend on an outside SRE specialist.

And then the SRE's that you do have can focus on the site reliability, instead of having to constantly tell developers how the way they coded something is bad or whatever.