I would argue that that operations engineers need to become more like developers, not that developers should be operating critical systems. The cultural proble

I would argue that that operations engineers need to become more like developers, not that developers should be operating critical systems. The cultural problem can also be framed as a transition from a server-centric operations model to an application-centric one -- something James Urquart wrote a great post about for GigaOM: http://gigaom.com/cloud/what-cloud-boils-down-to-for-the-enterprise-2/ http://gigaom.com/cloud/what-cloud-boils-down-to-for-the-ent...