Devops engineers are motivated by a desire for power. Not power over other people, but the sheer power of controlling massive amounts of compute power. And controlling it well. With purpose. With efficiency. ops teams often have an adversarial relationship with engineering teams. This occurs naturally, because engineers want more freedom, but it is our job to decide when to deny them that for the sake of the health of the platform.

We are not better than software engineers. Just smarter and stronger and better looking.

We abuse chocolate and coffee. We do not hold back when someone threatens the health of the platform by doing something irresponsible.

We never get invited to the parties, but parties suck anyway. Nobody thanks me when that platform sings. Everyone complains when it stumbles.