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Sure it is, you explicitly want features and stability.

Having 10,000 production ready features with 97% uptime and no backups is not desirable. So what has happened instead is a burnout epidemic among software developers who desperately attempt to relearn operations- or a rebranding of sysadmins to be “devops engineers”.

The very real problem you cite still happens in the latter case.

I have almost never seen an embedded sysadmin (as the 10+deploys a day talk suggests; and most people are talking about mentality-wise when discussing devops).

Others think that developers can do the job, but it’s easier than you think to be paralysed mentally by holding too many opposing views at once, which is why those kinds of things are short lived or the developers become the new operations staff purely.




> Having 10,000 production ready features with 97% uptime and no backups is not desirable

You’re the only one making this strawman argument, here.

> the 10+deploys a day talk

Most teams aren’t doing this outside of a rush to wrap up a feature before a major announcement. It’s not a daily occurrence.

> but it’s easier than you think to be paralysed mentally by holding too many opposing views at once

What on Earth are you talking about?




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