Having been able to provide all the infrastructure to developers, I find a lot of things on the 'production grade checklist' are not even on their radar. And I

Having been able to provide all the infrastructure to developers, I find a lot of things on the 'production grade checklist' are not even on their radar. And I think we have pretty good devs. Logs, backups, HA, scalability, testing with production sized datasets, testing with production sized load. We found it better to empower our sysadmins to get involved with development, rather than the devops approach of empowering developers to be involved with deployment (we do both).