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I’m mildly annoyed by the type of pseudo-coherent thoughts that are apparently the norm around the idea of DevOps: “DevOps is a philosophy,” “DevOps is obsolete,” “Platform engineer is the new term,” blah blah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s a timeless way to look at it, free of all hype and buzz, a take that’s as true now as it will be 100 years from now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Software, like all systems, gets harder to operate the bigger it gets. Eventually you hit a point of what I’ll call, meta-engineering<\/strong>, meaning re-engineering the process of engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In practice, forms of meta-engineering include: testing, REPL, reuse, deployment\/reverting, measuring\/observability, and most things that would get put under “DevOps.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the point is this — there are no<\/strong> neat boxes<\/strong>. Depending on the project value of meta-engineering in each of these areas may range from irrelevant, to worthy of an out-of-the-box-solution, to being worthy of more focus than the feature team. And the needs of problem rarely align in generic ways that neatly align with OCD org-charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any attempt to make hard-and-fast rules (each company should have an X team that uses Y% of the budget and is split into Z sub-teams) will be clumsy and likely erased by a new philosophy in less than a decade, as the software ecosystem changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So instead of producing abstract semi-coherent takes like “DevOps as a whole is …” it’s better to gather hard data on your specific company’s needs and just identify the areas that have a positive ROI for meta-engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn’t a sexy take, it’s not one that you can debate endlessly, and that’s what part of what makes it good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m mildly annoyed by the type of pseudo-coherent thoughts that are apparently the norm around the idea of DevOps: “DevOps is a philosophy,” “DevOps is obsolete,” “Platform engineer is the new term,” blah blah. Here’s a timeless way to look at it, free of all hype and buzz, a take that’s as true now as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/think-twice.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}