I think the mixture is more important. I don’t necessarily need my developers to know a whole lot about what our networking personal does. But I do need them to

I think the mixture is more important. I don’t necessarily need my developers to know a whole lot about what our networking personal does. But I do need them to know how to configure a trusted partner in our ADFS, how to create and manage databases and how to operate things in Azure. We used to think differently, we used to do much more specialisation, but because operations needed to also code, they eventually became developers who could also do operations, which meant that some of them simply ended up replacing some of the developers who simply took up too much man hours to get things into production by comparison. It’s sort of a delicate line of course, because you’re right on some level. People can’t know everything. So now our split is that developers need to be capable of working with things like Azure AD, but they don’t need to know how to manage it. They need to be capable of creating databases and how to handle the security on them, but they don’t need to know how we operate our actual database clusters. And so on. On the flip side some of our operations staff need to know how to program in python to be able to handle disasters if something happens to our Azure Services or many back-ends. They also need to know how to develop our software robots. But I think the biggest challenge most people face isn’t really on the operations vs development front. It’s on the new development vs old development improvement front. This is likely not as big an issue at a place like Netflix where they don’t service a gazillion different business needs, but in more broader enterprise businesses it quickly becomes a resource issue, because nobody is really going to have updated knowledge on 400 different systems at all times. And you can’t have people sitting around waiting for update requests on systems that may not produce one in a year.