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They'll all be washing dishes when the next recession hits IT and the need for affordability exceeds the need for reliability in service. When the first compan
by rcbdev 3y ago
They'll all be washing dishes when the next recession hits IT and the need for affordability exceeds the need for reliability in service.
When the first company relearns that on-prem with dedicated admins is infinitely cheaper than cloud with similar reliability and less / cheaper staff overhead it will be a rude awakening. This is especially sad to me as most women in our field are in DevOps/SRE roles as opposed to SWE.
Pray that Bezos and co. can keep their customers / your employers fooled.
- samuell 3y agoThough I understood one idea with SRE is that they are much more of a developer role anyway, and should theoretically have an easier time switching to a dev role if need be?
- gardenhedge 3y agoHow is the role related to where it is deployed? Won't this role carry over to on prem deployments?
- mathverse 3y agoBiggest load of horsecrap I have seen on this website. Complexity ballooned into unimaginable proportions. Observability is crucial for complex software.
- awaywethrow999 3y agoThat's my reaction too. I cannot imagine, unless we experience some world-wide cataclysm, moving away from observability, ci/cd, configuration management etc. and going back to bespoke bashscripts, hosts-as-pets, builds needing whole teams to put together, and whole teams to push out to servers. I experienced a reversal like that once, going from a company with a very healthy SRE culture + technical setup, to a startup very much without it, and I couldn't believe we were wasting our time on manually doing things and putting out the same fires. (I and a bunch of other SREs were hired by the CTO to fix this. He left 3 months later and my group was folded into OPs. Each one of us quit within a few months of that)