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It is like your doctor being the anesthesiologist, the recovery room nurse, and the surgeon all at once.
by makestuff 4y ago
It is like your doctor being the anesthesiologist, the recovery room nurse, and the surgeon all at once.
- hbarka 4y agoBad analogy. How about your mom asking you to help wash the dishes and take out the garbage?
- wruza 4y agoShe doesn't impose multiple business-critical schedules on that, so you can just wash them, pick your nose for a while, take out the garbage and go play games. There is nothing wrong with doing related jobs solo when situation allows, but this example is also far from learning and using "modern" full-stack of stacks or doing surgeries.
- makestuff 4y agoWell I didn't have to get an education to do that and if I mess up washing the dishes I didn't cause a death in the case of a doctor or a multi million dollar outage in tech.
- Smaug123 4y agoThat is an extremely bad analogy. The purpose of chores is to spread the load onto an otherwise unproductive member of the household. (And to teach said household member how to do them.) Unless you're arguing that engineers are unproductive members of a company, I suppose.
- danielvaughn 4y agoThank you, yes this is the perfect analogy. I think every developer should have some kind of baseline understanding of devops stuff. But it’s a whole field in and of itself, and is also innovating fairly rapidly. There are only so many hours in the day, it’s hard enough to stay on top of my core skill set.
- dilyevsky 4y agoRace car driver vs bus driver. Race car driver knows how their car functions and works with engineers/mechanics on improvements. Bus driver don’t give a shit (no offense to bus driver). Decide which company you are - a race team or a bus line
- Multicomp 4y agoI will extend this analogy to say I am a race car mechanic but I'm having to pick up how the driver drives the car in order to make the car perform better, with the eventual goal of being able to drive the car myself (ops -> devops -> dev) so I can do any of the above roles. Software devs who close their mind to the lower parts of the stack give me the opportunity to learn and do their jobs as well, becoming a more valuable employee as a result.
- dilyevsky 4y ago> becoming a more valuable employee as a result. That’s iyho. The management of a bus line company doesn’t see it that way ;)