[stickfigure]

In that case, what is the ratio of "time spent doing ops-related tasks" vs "time spent developing new features" in your company? Please offer an honest evaluation. Everything has a cost; I'm genuinely curious about data points other than my own.

[debacle]

I probably spend no more than an hour a week on ops, and most of that is reading emails from our service providers.

[stickfigure]

Today, maybe, assuming a calm ocean and no scaling issues. But I don't believe you spent an hour a week setting up your three data centers, backups, failover procedure, etc.

[debacle]

The backup script was written in a night, and the most complicated part about failover is remembering to sync data when the outage is over.