Ops teams are more useful when they're analyzing data and improving architecture based on the results of their analyses. The ideal ops role is beginning to phas

Ops teams are more useful when they're analyzing data and improving architecture based on the results of their analyses. The ideal ops role is beginning to phase out the "overqualified support engineer" framework and usher in the new idea of being an "infrastructure architect". To me, this article is more about the architectural/business decision of outsourcing as much as possible to 3rd-party services instead of reinventing the wheel in-house. How many Chef repos have the same stupid passenger cookbook vendored in? How many times have you had to fuck with that cookbook because it broke or something got updated? My websites for http://psychedeli.ca http://psychedeli.ca, http://brother.ly http://brother.ly, and http://www.waxpoeticrecords.com http://www.waxpoeticrecords.com are hosted on Heroku and, apart from the occasional Redis issue, they've been chugging along quite smoothly. I've had little to no issues with my development and continuous deployment process, which give my apps the same safeguards that I get with work (even more) with no one needed to "watch over" the project...other than me of course.