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Opinion: DevOps Is Dead (techcrunch.com)
Andrey Akselrod, CTO and a co-founder of Smartling, writes for TechCrunch: DevOps, as we know it, is dead. Perhaps not many people agree with me, but the age of DevOps is just about over. It's a "Perfect Storm" scenario in some ways. Lots of events coming together that drastically change the status quo. And where it all began was the concept and eventual widespread adoption of agile development and continuous deployment practices. DevOps was invented as a way to unite developers and IT operations (system administrators) to help them find a common ground. The premise was to automate the development and deployment tools that require collaborations between both disciplines. But someone still has to come in and write the required tool set. Thus, most companies resolved to create DevOps teams that combined the expertise of both sides to support their developers. The old model of throwing the code over the wall to system administrators who would deploy it stopped working with agile processes and continuous deployment practices. Whose responsibility is it when something goes wrong -- the person deploying the code or the developer? Developers don't know much about deploying and systems administrators don't know much about how the code is supposed to work.
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I thought the idea was to make developers do system administration and save money. Did I miss something?
Nope - you got it. And since devs make more than admins, the whole thing is fucking stupid any way you look at it.
We do devops in my shop. We're devs being forced to do sysadmin work for the production stack. We're professionals and we try our best, but it's a train wreck. We're great at automating our mistakes, but we're constantly doing to sort of shit that seems right to a junior sysadmin, but a veteran sysadmin shout down as idiotic. Too bad we don't have any of those.
It's the kind of deeply stupid idea that could only make sense to an MBA.
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