alt Hacker NewsScrum and Agile seem to be dying. I had a Product Owner and Scrum Master cert for years on my resume but i've dropped it from my current. Feels now like the ancient webmaster title of the mid 90s. Made for another timeline which is not more relevant.
DevOps is another sad story as it was a saner approach to get people skilled for both dev and ops but turns out people don't like learning new skills as much as they claim. So its meaning differed from org to org and even within the same company.
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marssaxman • today at 7:29 PM
A dev can very much enjoy learning new skills without feeling any desire for the pressure and burden of having to deal with ops.
As someone who has been in the "robot devops" space for like a decade now, I think with robot companies it becomes particularly acute because:
- Ops for cloud services and ops for deployed robots are very different beasts, so it's really two different teams that could both reasonably be "devops".
- Ops/tools for robot developers is different since you're often dealing with simulation environments (local, cloud) and also managing access to a more constrained pool of test hardware, all of which needs to be able to quickly recover and restore itself to factory state after developers or their code have done unspeakable things.
- Deployed units are often the worst of both worlds between multiple domains. You've got the big deployment assets of a data center but without the big data pipe; nothing is virtualized so you can't just throw away a node that goes bad; you're stuck supporting hardware snowflakes (here's a text file somewhere with the list of units that have bad CPU fans and need different frequency caps); it's like IOT but with the power and disk and observability requirements of a real server.