As a former Operations (now architecture) person - completely agree. The developers that are surprised at every turn of deployment (or really the lifetime of t

As a former Operations (now architecture) person - completely agree. The developers that are surprised at every turn of deployment (or really the lifetime of the code/service) got there by focusing purely on the code and none [or to be fair, very little] on the environment in which it operates. This is how the "works on my machine" meme was started. We don't run the product or maintain SLAs on 'your machine', so it doesn't matter. It gives us an idea for what it should look like under normal operations, but that's as far as it goes. So many developers have told me crazy things like chmod 777, 'replace python2 with 3 for everything, not just me', and so on. The epitome of cutting off your nose to spite your face.