Oh trust me I know totally what you mean, I'm usually the first ops person hired at a startup once they've gotten the budget for one. My goal when I work with d

Oh trust me I know totally what you mean, I'm usually the first ops person hired at a startup once they've gotten the budget for one. My goal when I work with devs is to get as much of the infrastructure frustration out of their way as possible (unless they want to help with it) and automate the processes that slow down their code from getting deployed. This usually comes with months of fixing cruft/security issues, etc that could've lead to a "hack" like this when just the devs were running the ship. I wish MORE small dev teams brought in ops people and didn't wait until they had a staff of 20-30 or whatever it typically winds up being. But I know that's a pipe dream and you're basically losing a developer salary to hire a devops/ops person which isn't the direction they want to go. edit: typos