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For 99% of companies, including the ones employees post here container and container orchestration is a resume driven development of devops/engops/sre/seniordev
by notyourday 9y ago
For 99% of companies, including the ones employees post here container and container orchestration is a resume driven development of devops/engops/sre/seniordevs caused by improper hiring, improper vetting of ideas and personnel and fixation on cargo cults.
It is no different from cargo culting in sales where a perfectly functioning company slowly but surely building up brings in a CRO (can you imagine this showed up as a title?! ) who says "We will sell differently! Give me account managers! Give me sales development representatives! Give me customer happiness coordinators and we will sell to enterprise accounts at 50x contract value!" So the company hires a hundred people in those roles and it does look like the contracts are creeping up. So the CRO says "I know! The issue is that we are spedning too much time on paperwork. Hire me salesops! And give me all these Sales Force integrations! And special IT people reporting to me operating these new tools" So the company hires more people for those roles, burning through millions of dollars in salaries but at the end... the new customers are still just a trickle.
Eventually CRO gets fired and most of the people who got hired on that push are gone as well as millions of dollars are spent. If they spent those millions on Google ads or Facebook ads they would have definitely gotten more revenue but plain Google ads and plain Facebook ads are not sexy.