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Thanks for sharing these points! Very thoughtful and helpful. We may well be wrong. But we believe that "learned the AWS stack" is not something most software
by igorzij 5y ago
Thanks for sharing these points! Very thoughtful and helpful.
We may well be wrong. But we believe that "learned the AWS stack" is not something most software engineers should do, ever. If you look at what DevOps originally was, it was about culture, not job specialty. But it became a specialty anyway - because it's so complex. Currently it's the only job in the spectrum that is "second-order" - in a sense that for developers to be productive, first the DevOps folks need to do some work. So it ends up as a permanent bottleneck – unless companies create in-house PaaS-like tools for developers to self-serve. And big well-funded companies end up doing it over and over again. We did it at Palantir and Fitbit; Uber did it, Shopify did it, and dozens more.
So you can think of Digger as such "PaaS builder" in a sense. AWS is still available for all kinds of troubleshooting - Digger doesn't make it any harder. But in 90% of scenarios people won't need it. This allows to reduce DevOps to software engineer ratio from current 1:10 to smth like 1:100.