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DevOps is a sad story both for devs and for ops. It was supposed to treat operations as a SW problem thus take away the toll and draw devs in. In reality for most places it either means that devs also do pipelines and operations or that operations were rebranded and are using "DevOps" tooling to do operations.

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To me, DevOps means SDEs can troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix app-related prod issues. SREs don’t have the app-level knowledge for that, so it’s wasteful for them to be involved. SREs should be paving paths for SDEs and responding to infrastructure ops issues.

I also think silos are unhealthy. SDEs need to have some overlapping responsibilities with SREs. Otherwise, you’ll likely have a “throw it over the fence” culture

I guess the idea is fine but the implementation tends to be about using 1 employee in multiple roles and working 60-hour work weeks while paying just one salary. You got DevOps, DevTest, then DevSecOps, etc. It´s insane, the next step is probably being a DevTestSecOps sleeping under the company desk.

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