[moksly]

I’m not sure what the issue with hiring them back is. We spend around 5% of a full time employee for their services, we can hire them back another 19 times this year, 39 times by next year and so on.

Nothing they build us would last forever, but then, we operate 300 IT systems, only a few major systems have a life cycle of more than 5 years. 5 years ago everything we ran was on prem but on VMs on rented hardware, 10 years ago it was physically on prem some on physical servers, now it’s in azure, who knows where it’ll be in another 5 years.

I fail to see what a full time staffed devops department would give us except for added continuous cost that is so much higher than its alternatives that it’s just ridiculous.

I mean, I understand full well that system operators are worried in the current climate, but most of ours simply developed into broader roles that aren’t becoming obsolete.