Comment by rednafi

Most of the DevOps folks I’ve encountered, unfortunately, couldn’t code much. So it was mostly ops work with a fancy new title.

The idea of a single entity being responsible for development, operations, observability, and support is flawed from the start. That’s not a one-person job, and the expectation simply doesn’t scale. So DevOps often ends up being either ops folks or dev folks, and rarely a true blend of the two.

What we need are feature-focused developers, ops-savvy devs who can deploy their own work, and a strong team dedicated to observability and applying modern SRE practices.

So I think curious developers who aren’t afraid of infra, along with a solid platform engineering team, are a real improvement over the status quo.