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> The cycle of picking a tech, jumping ship to it, religiously evangelising it, riding the wave and then jumping ship to the next related tech is typical in my
by tomxor 7y ago
> The cycle of picking a tech, jumping ship to it, religiously evangelising it, riding the wave and then jumping ship to the next related tech is typical in my opinion.
To balance this with a counter example from the quieter group of people not "hot for the latest tech":
I'm a "dev" and i've never had this problem, however I work for a small company, where everything I make and deploy I also have to maintain in some form or other. This gives me a strong bias towards operational simplicity and trying to essentially eliminate dev ops... New tech which is both complex and opaque in solution without clear cut advantages is basically repulsive to me, because trust and reliability without constant attention and tweaking is important.
- oblio 7y agoYou're not eliminating "dev ops", you're doing it right.
- twic 7y agoEliminating dev ops is doing it right! The whole entire point of devops, as it was originally formed, was that making developers bear the load of operations would encourage them to simplify and automate it.
- oblio 7y agoI should have added scare quotes around "eliminating", too, it seems :-)
- pbourke 7y agoI’m curious which technologies you’ve ended up working with.
- merb 7y agowell even in a small company you might need: - non downtime deployments (yes you can have a downtime, but everytime you deploy an app?!) - schedule more than one thing (no company has a single product that only has a single binary or at least nearly no company, there are some unicorns tough) - some kind of automation (this is complex, no matter what you use)
- madhadron 7y ago> non downtime deployment Oddly, a lot of small companies really don't need this. If your customers are mostly businesses in a limited set of time zones, having a maintenance window outside of their business hours is probably easier.
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y agoYou are in a an excellent position, but beyond a certain size things become difficult to manage in this way.