>Parse.ly may run on 200 EC2 nodes across multiple regions DevOps has become "developers doing operations" but thats a misapplication of the term. DevOps start

>Parse.ly may run on 200 EC2 nodes across multiple regions DevOps has become "developers doing operations" but thats a misapplication of the term. DevOps started as Developers and Operations working together. If your running this many EC2 nodes, and you don't have an Operations person or team, then your running on the razors edge. >At the time of our conversation I had crashed an AWS instance and we were having trouble fixing it. Among the points I made to Sean was that the problem was specific to AWS. If we’d been in the Rackspace cloud, I simply would have rolled back to yesterday’s image. A problem that would have taken 5 minutes to fix instead dragged on for 2 weeks. Honestly you have already been given the sign post that this could go very badly for you. Imagine the case where "crashed instance" was expensive critical infrastructure. How many hours or days of outage before your business is irreparably harmed?