Comment by mancerayder

Numerous people are denigrating DevOps people - resume padding, over-complexity, etc.

I think that's startup-thinking, at least in my experience. Maybe in a small company the DevOps guy does all infra.

In my experience, especially in financial services, who runs the show are platform engineering MDs - these people want maximum control for their software engineers, who they split up into a thousand little groups who all want to manage their own repos, their own deployments, their own everything. It's believed that microservices gives them that power.

I guarantee you devops people hate complexity, they're the ones getting called at night and on the weekend, because it's supposedly always an "infrastructure issue" until proven otherwise.

Also the deployment logs end up in a log aggregation system, and god forbid software developers troubleshoot their own deployments by checking logs. It's an Incident.

Are microservices a past fad yet?