I'm a sysadmin, and I can tell you that it only exacerbates the problem. I've met too many devs who think that using Chef will give them systems clue. I've me

I'm a sysadmin, and I can tell you that it only exacerbates the problem. I've met too many devs who think that using Chef will give them systems clue. I've met too many devs who think that caching everything in memory is, indeed, the cure-all for everything. Ted has it right - make the devs completely responsible for the code that they deploy. That's it. There's no magic pill, it's going to be tough, and no software package is going to make anyone into a "devops" or a "sysadmin."