[LtWorf]

Who makes more career? The guy bullshitting about architecture or the guy ensuring stuff works that nobody notices even what he's doing?

[grogenaut]

The dev who makes shit work and and tracks measures the ops gains / reduced headcount needs and reports their impact up the chain. Who also gives talks on how everyone can make their stuff run as simple as they do.

[LtWorf]

You can give talks without do anything. That works just as well.