The Daily WTF

Developers sometimes fail to appreciate how difficult a job Operations really is. In companies that don’t hold with newfangled DevOps, the division of labor often comes with a division of reputation as well. After all, developers do the hard work of making software. What are Ops guys even for? They don’t make software. They don’t generate leads or fix your desktop PC. Why bother paying for talented senior Ops professionals?

Spend a few days with the Ops team, however, and you start to see why you should pay them a little more than your average garbageman. The Ops lifecycle is a daily grind of deployments, patching, and sticking fingers in dykes, trying to keep that expensive cesspit the devs call “software” running. Simple tasks such as spinning up new infrastructure in AWS often get pushed to the back burner behind putting out fires and making sure critical maintenance tasks

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