DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
This is so well said and on the nose that it hurt to read.<p>I am entering into my third major project in a row where it’s almost the exact same situation (and same consultant I’ve bumped into)<p>- site starts to scale, never had an ops team<p>- realizes oh shit we cant manage this ourselves but who wants to hire some hacker nerd for $150k a year that “gEnErAtEs nO BuSiNesS rEvEnUe” so they hire a consultant or consultancy firm<p>- firm builds them a solution that will technically “scale” but no one in the organization bothered to learn how it works<p>- it works for a while til it doesnt and then the “oh shit” moment becomes “oh shit we need a dedicated devops team”<p>- devops team attempts to work with the shitty consultant solution (editing yaml) and does an okay job until something breaks horribly again or they become a massive bottleneck<p>- finally they allow someone to come in and clean house and you get an infra platform like the author of this blog is describing<p>Platform engineering is the right word. “devops” has literally no meaning. I’m only 6 years or so into my career, but I can count on a single hand the amount of devops engineers I’ve worked with that can actually “dev” - and by dev, I mean do stuff like dig into application code and suggest modifications for the infrastructure, or write their own full fledged libraries.<p>Let’s get rid of devops and hire platform engineers. The problem is it’s a really weird and rare combination of skillsets, in a field no one really wants to do except complete weirdos (I am one). I’ve long said that DevOps isnt a career you choose, it just happens to you.<p>Well said! thank you so much for this post.