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> "foo sucks but bar is actually great (btw I'm a bar)" I'm a product engineer AND an infrastructure engineer in the common job-title sense, and if I had a dol
by ben_jones 7y ago
> "foo sucks but bar is actually great (btw I'm a bar)"
I'm a product engineer AND an infrastructure engineer in the common job-title sense, and if I had a dollar every time an infrastructure engineer/devops/full-stack introduced a complex service (elasticsearch/kafka/k8s/etc) without understanding how the service should be configured, maintained, or extended, I'd be able to afford a house in the bay!
Good product managers bridge the gap between engineering, sales, and the executive team, and can make a project successful just by managing the decision making process(es) well.
The bottom line however is that most companies have poor product management and poor infrastructure engineering which will lead to many more Theranos and Yahoo style messes in the years to come (and waste untold billions doing it!).