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The problem is incentives and authority. It used to be that Ops owned uptime, and therefore it was their right to tell Engineering to go fuck themselves when th
by jcgrillo 2y ago
The problem is incentives and authority. It used to be that Ops owned uptime, and therefore it was their right to tell Engineering to go fuck themselves when they asked to put some spacecamp graph database or whatever in production. Now everyone is "devops" and nobody can tell anyone anything.
- hbsbsbsndk 2y agoI've never actually worked in an org where infra could overrule product in such a way. If some director wants a whizbang new database your job is to facilitate the resulting tire fire.
- stackskipton 2y agoI've seen it but it's pretty rare. It got worse when Amazon/Google promotion systems started leaking into rest of business borg groupthink.
- bombela 2y agoAnd you bet the director will never be held accountable.
- jcgrillo 2y agoIncentives: you lose a nine of uptime you (ops director) lose a finger. Authority: you, ops director, decide what goes in production and what doesn't.