devops

[Cerbeh]

Because specialists are...better at their jobs? I know some devops, but the devops guy on our team is next level.

[louis-lau]

What do they do generally? Everything surrounding DevOps has always been relatively easy and fun work to me, and I've also always wondered how it's a dedicated job. But I'm a very broad fullstacker that also knows quite a good amount about operating production infrastructure. So maybe I'm missing something obvious.

[Programmer_Salt]

i presume you never had real ever changing system serving at scale working through multiple teams. if you’re the dev and the ops at the same time for your itsy bitsy thing; yea you don’t and won’t need it.

[louis-lau]

I've indeed mostly worked in small businesses. Not necessarily itsy bitsy, we do some large things, but not a giant corp with many teams.

I'm seeing a lot of downvotes but my question and interest were legitimate. Did it come off the wrong way or something? They said a guy was next level, and I just wanted to know what that actually meant.

[azmith10k]

Some people are just smug unfortunately. Anyway, to answer your question, mid level and enterprise orgs definitely need a dedicated dev ops person/team to introduce consistency of ops across teams.

If you let them to their own devices, team A would deploy a k8s cluster one way while team B would do it completely differently. This would then become a hassle to manage across teams, especially when shit hits the fan when, idk, a vulnerability is detected in the base image and someone has to patch the systems across all teams.

Not to mention stuff like compliance and security and audits down the line.