[NoSalt]

I am a software developer. I went to college to learn software development. Two years ago, they tried to tack DevOps on to my job description. I told them "no thanks", then had to find another job. I found one and am MUCH happier not having to do that DevOps crap. No offense, but it a soul-draining undertaking, and I like writing code ... ONLY!

[jpollock]

I have a different opinion. :) DevOps is great feedback to the engineering team.

Too many alarms or alarms at unsocial hours? The engineering team should feel that pain.

Too hard to push? The engineering team should feel that pain.

Strange hard to diagnose alarms? Yep, the engineering team should feel that pain!

The feedback is very important to keeping the opex costs under control.

However, I think the author and I have different opinions on what DevOps is. DevOps isn't a full time role. It's what the engineer does to get their software into production.

[antonvs]

This sounds very adversarial to me. I’m glad our devops team doesn’t think like you.

[bobanrocky]

The only folks who like devops are those that haven’t touched anything else, or are scared to move out of that molehill. Try it once .. is my advice

[dilyevsky]

> I like writing code ... ONLY!

Boy do I have some bad news for you...

[NoSalt]

And what would that news be? I have successfully doing this for almost 20 years. Yes, it means fewer promotions and less money, but I don't care. I value my sanity over money.

[booleandilemma]

Same thing happened to me at a company several years ago. It felt like they wanted me in two roles but were only paying me for one. Didn't take long for me to jump ship after that.

[Joel_Mckay]

DevOps is secretly spiral development.

Great if billing by the hour, and mostly unsustainable for products =3

[raw_anon_1111]

I am first and foremost still a software developer as far as my hands on keyboard job. I absolutely love being able to set up my own infrastructure without depending on glorified system administrators who call themselves “DevOps Engineers”. It’s all just code at the end of the day - setting up infrastructure involves writing yaml, HCL or actual code (CDk).