What you're saying is so true, but it's worth saying: it doesn't work.
This is exactly how once-great tech companies die. This is how governments lose the faith of their citizenry.
This is exactly how once-great tech companies die. This is how governments lose the faith of their citizenry.
Operations are handled by a different team than the initial development team - they don't even need to know how to deploy the thing. It's code by numbers, and in that situation, it pays to have someone that doesn't deviate from the number system and the low need for creativity drives the value of the work down and makes the code into a commodity product. Value is low, competition is high, margins are low. Certification is just a sign that you are open for business in that market.
It’s crap work for crap pay. In the 70s and 80s when this stuff was new, it made sense to “grow” and train operators and more blue collar folks driven by runbooks and tight frameworks. Nowadays you just hire low skill folks “off the shelf”.