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> stuff that would ordinarily be done by someone making 1/5th my TC Did you mean for this to be condescending towards ops? Because that’s how it sounds. Ops i

> stuff that would ordinarily be done by someone making 1/5th my TC Did you mean for this to be condescending towards ops? Because that’s how it sounds. Ops is not easy, at all. Even if you’re doing zero IaC, I defy the average dev to try to provision a Linux box from scratch and install, configure, tune, and maintain the stack you need to run your code. Throw IaC atop that, and now you need to understand declarative programming and OOP concepts to be able to do it efficiently. Then, there’s K8s… Not to mention the architecture side of things. Devs love to grab whatever shiny thing they saw on a Medium blog, even when it’s a poor fit to their problem (or their problem is unoptimized code). You probably do not need a columnar DB, you just need to normalize your tables and learn relational algebra.

steveBK123 3y ago
I do not mean to be condescending. I am being literal. Every job is hard, and the pay is not exactly commensurate with effort. Ops is absolutely hard and theres a lot to learn. And in doing so you generally may end up with DevOps teams with minimal to zero domain knowledge in what the company delivers to end users. So if you have a team of people who built a deep level of expertise in something over 10, 15, 20 years and that something is business facing, domain knowledge, etc.. then it is not of value to have their time spent on other tasks. Often these DevOps roles are filled by more junior staff at the earlier stages of their career. This is another reason the staffing is usually lower cost.