alt Hacker NewsYou're not really a professional in 2025 if you do not approach development with a devops mentality, with due consideration given to concerns like deployment, scaling, and observability.
You're not really a professional in 2025 if you do not approach development with a devops mentality, with due consideration given to concerns like deployment, scaling, and observability.
i've been in the industry long enough to know that the devops promise that developers can do operation is essentially fantasy.
i mean don't get me wrong, some statistical outliars certainly can, or they can as long as they outsource a lot of the actual work (look at heroku/vercel and similar platforms). or if they have an infinite budget.
but at the end of the day software development and system administration are two very different skillsets in the practical side of the field of computer science.
particularly nowadays, you'd be surprised how many engineers don't know shit about what's outside their favourite language runtime. i see developers reinventing the wheel almost every month because they're unfamiliar with many of the underlying linux/unix systems capabilities.