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I work in devops (and did so before it was called that), I write code in turing complete languages. Just code that manages infrastructure and software rather th

by jascii 7y ago

I work in devops (and did so before it was called that), I write code in turing complete languages. Just code that manages infrastructure and software rather then interacts directly with end users. I template configuration files rather then user interfaces. I have to consider race conditions in complex systems, consider the robustness and security implications of anything I do, verify my input (that's you, you hotshot "software engineer") and fail gracefully if needed. Tell me that is not software engineering, the only difference is that my ability to test before deployment is much more costly and limited, I have to get it right the first time around..

scarface74 7y ago
I agree. Even when writing cloud formation templates you have to sometimes create what basically consisted of locks to ensure that one resource doesn’t get created before another one and ensure that certain resources don’t get created in parallel to avoid throttling (parameter store). And if that’s not “real programming” sometimes you actually do end up writing custom resources in a “real programming language” that get called from CF to create resources. I’m very much up and down the stack any given week going from the front end, middleware, databases and infrastructure not to mention building out CI/CD pipelines.