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This is a weird mentality that I think comes from being disconnected from ops. It's like you're a mechanical engineer building a truck, and now that you have a
by peterwwillis 7y ago
This is a weird mentality that I think comes from being disconnected from ops. It's like you're a mechanical engineer building a truck, and now that you have a 3D Printer that can make any part, you think you don't have to rely on or communicate with the people driving the trucks on the road.
- dividedbyzero 7y agoAs long as what you're doing isn't too involved, I guess running without ops is completely realistic nowadays. If all you need is a database and a relatively simple monolithic app plus stuff like logging, metrics, and if a little downtime here and there isn't the end of the world, there's lots and lots of managed/cloud offerings that'll cut down ops to a point where it's very much manageable for capable devs. A lot of small shops run like this and do so successfully.
- peterwwillis 7y agoIf a little downtime here and there doesn't matter, then either customers don't care about the product, or the company doesn't care about the customer. Ops's job is to keep customers happy by keeping the applications from going down; it's not like they think a dev can't set up a service in AWS themselves. But you're right, you don't need a dedicated ops person if a dev has the time and knowledge to maintain a service reliably.