The question, "what are you trying to do?" is super useful to remember to ask. I work at a company that's trying to modernize and move to devops for dev environ

The question, "what are you trying to do?" is super useful to remember to ask. I work at a company that's trying to modernize and move to devops for dev environments. Because the infrastructure is not nailed down, this means that every single team needs to have at least one person who understands the devops. The process of learning k8s and grokking the security concerns in the course of a few sprints is not pleasant. This "XY Problem" crops up all the time, but the devops team is absolutely slammed all the time so many times basic queries go unanswered. Everybody has to help everybody else. I don't think anyone wants to go back to the days of rigid development infrastructure so we're kind of stuck with devops until the ecosystem can mature. My great hope is for serverless to take off and so programmers can further specialize. I'm getting tired of learning new languages and stacks every few months or years. Just hand me a biz requirement and let me implement it any way I like.