[nostrebored]

Amazon seems to do it fine, as have many other places I’ve worked.

The truth is that infrastructure is not that complex when you have someone giving you building blocks and setting up guardrails. Having someone give you the pipelines and setting the boundaries is great. Choosing the pieces to get the product over the line is not that hard in a world where cloud is the norm.

[slyall]

You need a big team to maintain the platform and provide a controlled access to do stuff (PaaS is the buzzword) and then a bunch of above-average devs that are motivated, trained and incentivized to do their own bits of Infra properly.

Possible at FAANG[1] but gets a lot harder as companies get smaller and/or the devs teams are not setup to do that.

[1] I assume the SREs are not the only ones doing the Infra code