&gt; exceedingly few of them even know the extent of what taking responsibility for ops includes<p>When you don&#x27;t know the extent of your ignorance, everything seems trivial. A.k.a. &quot;how hard could it be?&quot;.<p>I have a feeling the more ops-y things I do gets more in demand as organizations move towards the cloud. Measuring performance is not trivial in a shared environment and failure scenarios can get very complex. And every development decision suddenly affects the bottom line when billing gets granular.