DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
This is so well said and on the nose that it hurt to read.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)- site starts to scale, never had an ops team- 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- firm builds them a solution that will technically “scale” but no one in the organization bothered to learn how it works- it works for a while til it doesnt and then the “oh shit” moment becomes “oh shit we need a dedicated devops team”- 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- finally they allow someone to come in and clean house and you get an infra platform like the author of this blog is describingPlatform 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.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.Well said! thank you so much for this post.