[jen20]

> DevOps is about giving Developers a dedicated System Operations job for some small fraction of their time.

No. DevOps is about the development and operations disciplines working together in a cross functional way to deliver software faster and more reliably.

In a small enough startup both disciplines may be represented by a single person, though.

[politician]

I respectfully disagree. I’ve scaled these teams myself, and it’s about giving developers in a small organization the job of deploying the solution and ensuring that it runs. In larger organizations, DevOps becomes impossible and it naturally splits into Dev and Ops. It’s important to understand where it works and when it stops working to effectively manage the transition as the business grows.

[jen20]

> In larger organizations, DevOps becomes impossible

News to me. I work at one the biggest companies around, and our DevOps posture is pretty great, and that was achieved by cross functional teams from the historic dev and historic ops teams doing all the things that Accelerate codified.