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A stock trading company, IT stuff are support for the real employees, the traders. You have a trader, you have a trading company. The programmers are just suppo
by dvtrn 4y ago
A stock trading company, IT stuff are support for the real employees, the traders. You have a trader, you have a trading company. The programmers are just support for them.
Not the norm, but I suspect it probably happens more than it should...but this is the sensation I'm feeling about "Devops engineers" in the last few years. Which, yeah, we could sit here and talk all day about whether or not "Devops engineers" should be a job title at all, because Devops is a "way of working" or whatever but that's kinda the self-fulfilling problem isn't it?
Devops was supposed to be a way of working and somehow it got turned into "Help Desk for the App Developers" in way too many environments and orgs, where too many great Developers with Operational capabilities end up being on the receiving end of "the devs are working on feature x, we need someone to do this, and we failed to really figure out our engineering resourcing needs, so uh, I dunno give it to the Devops team to deal with".
- Aeolun 4y agoFeels like the opposite to me. A lot of ops teams got turned into ‘devops’ teams overnight without any change in mode of operations, leading to skewed expectations from developers that actually know what the ‘dev’ part is about. At least, I was fairly surprised by how our devops team looked at what I was trying to push onto them until I learned their origin story.
- dvtrn 4y agoChesterton's fence is a real bitch, ain't it?