<<That said, a small ops team (three people) can manage thousands of machines without much difficulty, and you can probably share two of those with the dev team as Dev-Ops guys, with one grizzled old sysadmin to handle the nastier problems.>>
I worked for a company that contracted with a guy whose entire business was based on this model. He was the hardcore sysadmin and would juggle tons of servers and administrative config for you. He trained the devs to handle all of the mundane ops stuff, with him as backup.
Really great system. It was really empowering for us devs, too.
I worked for a company that contracted with a guy whose entire business was based on this model. He was the hardcore sysadmin and would juggle tons of servers and administrative config for you. He trained the devs to handle all of the mundane ops stuff, with him as backup.
Really great system. It was really empowering for us devs, too.