DevOps: Why it is misunderstood & what it always should have been
Guest post originally published on the Elastisys blog by the Elastisys team DevOps is a cultural movement that has brought a lot of much-needed agility to software development. But it is also… ⌘ Read more

I don’t normally enjoy much of the content that comes out of the CNCF but in this particular case this guest blog post on how DevOps is ‘misunderstood” is actually a great read. I empathize with a lot of the points made here and agree. 👌 It also makes me want to write a follow-up blog post in response to this, because there’s another aspect of “misunderstanding” when it comes to the “Platform Operators” as the author puts it here that I’d like to discuss 😅 #DevOps #SRE

The last few paragraphs hits the nail on the head here:

Developers can practice the DevOps way of working by taking on the responsibilities of development and application operations. This allows developers to iterate fast. They can monitor, analyze, plan, and execute code changes in an agile way. It allows them to focus and put all their efforts into building value for the organization via application development.

And:

Enabling them to do so, on a technical level, is the job of the platform operators. This team works in the background, and keeps the platforms and systems humming along nicely. They are the enablers who lay the foundation upon which developers can perform their new duties in a DevOps way.

Finally:

DevOps was never intended to make developers do both application and platform operations.

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