> DevOps is really so complex that a medium-sized company needs an entire team? Depends on your goals, but most people probably don't need it. > I just put th

> DevOps is really so complex that a medium-sized company needs an entire team? Depends on your goals, but most people probably don't need it. > I just put the command in the cron tab and called it a day Obviously this will lead to data loss if any data is written and then a corruption event or issue occurs in-between cron events. The road to over-complicated infrastructure is paved with mistakes and outages. The home-lab server running on a pi in my closet can use cron jobs and scripts, but at work we maintain higher standards because our data loss would cost more than a few extra days of engineer time. Everything should be as simple as possible, but let's not pretend everyone is a chump because their engineering tolerances don't allow for data loss.