"sitting next to a server in a datacenter to write backend software" Again, I've worked places where people do this. More precisely it was storage array softwa

"sitting next to a server in a datacenter to write backend software" Again, I've worked places where people do this. More precisely it was storage array software, but we had an onsite datacenter and people were live dev-testing redundancy capabilities, etc. I think I just gravitate to workplaces where I have some physical access to the systems I'm writing code for.