devops is good stuff. Just apply to the developers the same standards (and typically answers) as you would to your deployment world. You should be able to answe

devops is good stuff. Just apply to the developers the same standards (and typically answers) as you would to your deployment world. You should be able to answer questions like: "How does a new developer get going within 5 minutes?" in the same way that you answer "How do we build and deploy a new app?" and both the local developer and remote system should be debugged and monitored in the same way. devops isn't bad, and will speed up onboarding new staff, growing, and helps your devs and ops people immensely. On the rest I'd largely agree with you... other answers may only apply at a certain scale, or complexity, or some other set of parameters that may not apply to you now. Solve the problem you have now, and the problem you'll definitely have in the next 6 months. The rest is for the future.