Sysadmin or devops is responsible for uptime directly, being ultimately responsible for the services to remain performant. It's a mindset and temperament that

Sysadmin or devops is responsible for uptime directly, being ultimately responsible for the services to remain performant. It's a mindset and temperament that may help developers see solutions or foresee pitfalls while designing and implementing code. Zero-downtime attitude. Making and testing deployments, upgrades and migrations to be least impactful as a core function is probably the biggest effect of putting a developer in a sysadmins shoes.