| What you just described is the exact same reason I started working on https://stacktape.com 3 years ago. When doing the market research, I talked to ~150-200 companies (mostly SMBs). Everyone was trying to "do DevOps". But the complexity of running a Kubernetes cluster (or a custom AWS setup using ECS) is just overwhelming for most of the teams. In most cases, the DevOps/platform team requires atleast 2-3 experienced people that have successfully done this before. Considering how few experienced DevOps people with such kind of experience are currently available on the market, it's no surprise that only the "coolest" companies around get to hire these people. These successful companies then write blogposts about how successful they were. And the circle starts all over again. Less successful companies follow them and (in most cases) fail. Most of these companies don't admit it, or don't admit it soon enough. They also don't write blogposts about their failures. From my experience and research, roughly 70-80% of companies fail to deliver the expected results (or deliver them with order of magnitue more effort than initially expected). Yet 90-95% of the content we get to read about these topics is overwhelmingly positive. PS.: If you don't have an A-tier DevOps teams, check out https://stacktape.com. I promise it will make your life easier. |