Cloud tech also changed the economics of operations and support. 10 years ago you might need 3 trained ops folks to run a production service on a given tech st

Cloud tech also changed the economics of operations and support. 10 years ago you might need 3 trained ops folks to run a production service on a given tech stack. Often the only real requirements for these jobs was a competent claim that the person could keep the lights on when the server went down at 4 am. Modern cloud shops don't need dedicated staff to manually reboot servers, manually install software, or manually handle unavoidable hardware problems. Often what they're looking for is core software knowledge to add automation, fault tolerance, and scalability to their stacks under the banner of platform/devtools/backend software roles.