Jane Bailey

Jane Bailey is a self-published author of urban fantasy novels as well as a part-time blogger; in their day job, they're a renaissance person, dabbling in all sorts of fields in search of interesting puzzles and finding mostly WTFs.

Sep 2018

Shell Out

by in CodeSOD on

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Developers sometimes fail to appreciate how difficult a job Operations really is. In companies that don't hold with newfangled DevOps, the division of labor often comes with a division of reputation as well. After all, developers do the hard work of making software. What are Ops guys even for? They don't make software. They don't generate leads or fix your desktop PC. Why bother paying for talented senior Ops professionals?