[HN Gopher] "DevOps": a decade of confusion and frustration
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       "DevOps": a decade of confusion and frustration
        
       Author : dijit
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-08-07 14:23 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | bump64 wrote:
       | Interesting points but I would like to add my takeout at how I
       | see Devops and how we use Devops engineers in our organization.
       | My previous boss came up with the definition that most closely
       | describes Devops for me and it is the following: Devops are set
       | of practices that increase the team velocity. And in fact Devops
       | engineers wear many hats. The team needs to get faster their code
       | from developer workstations to production - a Devops engineer
       | could help set up ci/cd pipeline. We need more quality checks and
       | gates before releasing to production - a Devops engineer could
       | help. We need the service to handle spikes in traffic, database
       | backups and failover operations - a Devops engineer could help.
       | We need our infrastructure to be scripted as code, automated,
       | immutable and easy to replicate - a Devops engineer job.
       | Developers have a hard time localizing an issue in production -
       | again Devops engineer could help setting up better logging and
       | monitoring. Also it is not a job in isolation. Devops engineers
       | work closely with the team to transfer knowledge about the tools
       | they built and also observe what is blocking the devs from doing
       | their job in terms of tooling. It seems like asking a lot from a
       | single person in that role but for small teams people often do
       | various tasks by themselves. In bigger organizations people could
       | specialize in different roles like release engineers and SRE but
       | I do believe that there is always a need for someone to be in the
       | Devops role to keep track of the bigger picture and bridge the
       | gaps between devs and operations.
        
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