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SWEs: are SRE/devops folks part of your day to day? I have never been in a SWE role where I didn’t do my own “ops”, even at FAANG (I haven’t worked at Google).
by cmckn 2y ago
SWEs: are SRE/devops folks part of your day to day?
I have never been in a SWE role where I didn’t do my own “ops”, even at FAANG (I haven’t worked at Google). I know "SRE/devops" was/is buzzy in the industry, but it’s always seemed, in the vast majority of cases, to be a half-assed rebrand of the old school “operations” role -- hardly a revolution. In general, I think my teams have benefited from doing our own ops. The software certainly has. Am I living in a bubble?
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- fragmede 2y agoI'm assuming in the ops side of your role, you're not filling in firewall rules paperwork to an network team, spinning up new servers to SSH in and SCP some files over and edit a couple of config files though. Operations just doesn't look like that anymore, so the fact that SWE teams can now do a meaningful amount of operations for their product is the revolution. It may not feel like it if you weren't doing operations the old way, but there are a lot of tools that are invisible to make things work.
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- baalimago 2y agoSRE and DevOps is better summarized as 'cloud engineering', IMO. Basically, it's to set up and maintain the infrastructure which allows you to do your own ops as a dev.
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- cmckn 2y agoThat's my impression as well. My SWE team has always done all of that ourselves, I've never felt the need for a dedicated role to maintain IaC and click around in the console.