Was that not the OPs point too about it being a sad story and many Devs not being capable of learning to run software outside of an IDE?

So jack of all trades master of none?

We’re seeing the same thing with QA. I guess developers can QA their own deliverables.

Leaving out the key fact that the vast majority of developers have no interest in testing stuff. And thus you end up “testing in prod” like with Microsoft projects.

It’s not a coincidence Microsoft’s software quality has collapsed since they’ve eliminated dedicated QA/SDET roles.

    A programmer has to be able to demonstrate that his program has the required properties. If this comes as an afterthought, it is all but certain that he won't be able to meet this obligation: only if he allows this obligation to influence his design, there is hope he can meet it. Pure a posteriori verification denies you that wholesome influence and is therefore putting the cart before the horse, but that is exactly what happens in the software houses where "programming" and "quality assurance" are done by different groups. [Needless to say, those houses deliver without warranty.]

I think pure Product Manager - idea person and feature gate - as a role has limited days left, but Technical Product Manager - often people with recent dev experience and strong tech chops who can build a lot with AI - might be the new role.

Ops is when what you made collides with reality. Replacing "ops" in your post with "reality" gave me a good chuckle.

Exactly. The field is already too complicated, you can learn a lot without learning literally everything.

Actually, no one learns literally everything. "DevOps" mean that developers should prioritize learning ops over learning deeper something else (because ultimately there are only 24 hours in a day). Which sounds crazy to me; it would be better if the team had experts on different things cooperating together, rather than everyone being mediocre at everything.

That said, companies love replaceable people, or at least they love to imagine that everyone is replaceable. So when everyone becomes DevSecOpsCloudAccountantJanitor, it feels like as long at they keep one such person in the company, they got everything covered.

Last team I was on was repsonsible for supporting and maintaining their product, with help from the SRE team. It means after-hours support for issues and (maybe) releases but I think this was the right way. You became the backstop and support resource for things like data center outages and DDOS attacks that were largely the responsiblity of the (much smaller than many places) SRE team. We also put devs very closely behind front-line customer facing staff where it made sense (ex: reporting & analytics - yes, platform - probably not). It made the devs better and they might try and deny it but I think most of them actually appreciated it. #YMMV

> being in the war room when a data center goes under

When doesn't this involve devs? If you have ops separate and isolated from the development effort, a devs representation will have to get involved at some point.

>DevOps'issue IMHO is developing software and dealing with the ops side are two fundamentally different propositions

That's why they have to be the same team. Your dev team needs to: 1. understand how to write code that can be debugged and recovered in a crisis, 2. learn to write code that doesn't cause the crisis in the first place, 3. have the motivation to do so because they will be the ones paged.

Anything else produces are far worse experience for everyone involved, especially customers.

The problem I've seen with DevOps is that some fief-builder sets up a "DevOps Organization", which is literally the opposite of what DevOps means.

> DevOps'issue IMHO is developing software and dealing with the ops side are two fundamentally different propositions, and require two different life styles. Doing ops also means entering the on-call rotations, being in the war room when a data center goes under and being on the hook when a DDOS brings down the service.

That's exactly the issue that DevOps aims to solve, though. When you have developers who have no ownership or responsibility once the software is running on production, it becomes a "throw it over the fence" situation, and devs don't care about the operational side.

Logging? Who needs that, if there's a bug report I'll reproduce it on my local machine (and if I can't, CLOSE-WONTFIX!) Performance monitoring? That's an ops problem, tell 'em to buy better hardware. Application crashes? Works on my machine, probably a bug in the server config; ops problem. Tell them to set up a scheduled restart every hour.

You still need dedicated operations staff who deal with the overall system health and design, but yes, a developer needs to be involved when a DDOS brings down the service, because how should the system behave under heavy traffic? Can it serve up cached read-only pages? Did someone find a very CPU-intensive public endpoint that is being exploited and needs to be fixed? Only your developers can answer this question, not the ops team.

Most places mean someone who does development and operations. They see it as a term for someone who has responsibilities on both sides, not a specialty.