Everything about this article is really weirdly written. It's glib in the way that preachers are glib from the pulpit and trying to get you to just believe some

Everything about this article is really weirdly written. It's glib in the way that preachers are glib from the pulpit and trying to get you to just believe something while glossing over your particular concerns. Is "doing DevOps" impossible? "No! It's simply a difficult transition." Oh, I see now. That makes it all better. Never mind that the author's "friend" never claimed it was impossible. Rather that it was fundamentally a bad decision. It's like a parable, but a really bad one. I wonder when the author is going to bring up Agile and just assume we're all true believers and that anything that incorporates Agile must be good without question. Oh, there it is. Right there. So the difficult transition of DevOps is presented here as necessary and appropriate because 1. Agile, 2. Faster, and 3. Because it avoids some incredibly horrible practices the friend's DBA team does. 1. I won't get into here. That's a different flame-war for a different time. But people should know better than to write articles with the unquestioning premise that Agile automatically justifies any and every difficult transition. 2. I'm highly allergic to justifications that involve moving faster. Most companies do not have a problem delivering value fast enough. They have a problem delivering any value at all, and delivering a reliable product at any pace. Faster time to value is the worst possible justification if you're trying to convince me to experience some pain. I am a big proponent of DevOps, and I bake it in to all my work, both at my work-work and in my side projects. It's worth the difficulty to me because it allows me to reliably get my code from point a to point b. That it's perhaps faster (is it really faster if you add up the person-hours? I don't know. I don't really care) is a little extra niceness if it's there at all. 3. DevOps has basically nothing to do with the pain that's causing the situation described in this parable. DevOps won't fix bad DBAs or sloppy Devs. DevOps won't fix a manager that allows this kind of situation to happen in the first place. DevOps won't fix a company culture that allows Management to run this kind of a dev shop. It's like the "friend" here is dying of dehydration in the desert and this dude rolls up in his car and says, "Hey man, you really need to eat more vegetables and less red meat and exercise at least 30 minutes a day. It will totally change your life! Also, I have these essential oils that will cleans toxins from your spirit aura and help you focus on your life goals. Good luck!"