All the claims that cloud computing is some boon to developers makes me suspect they might just work at a terribly organized company. If you make developers pu

All the claims that cloud computing is some boon to developers makes me suspect they might just work at a terribly organized company. If you make developers pull double duty as sysadmins, then outsourcing surely makes things better for development. But it's still more work than handing the infrastructure and administration over to people that specialize in that. A well managed service is a ticket away, not getting someone who "knows docker pretty good" to have another background responsibility to neglect until it sets on fire. Throughout the cloud boom I've worked at a company with a great IT department, not just a glorified helpdesk. The division makes sure that we provide a sane deliverable that doesn't need constant handholding and 10 hotfixes a day, and they give us the peace of mind that it's not going to go sideways. They sweat the details so much that the rare issues that have escalated to the head of IT and myself at the same computer investigating something were still relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.