Someone just forwarded this to me. It's absolutely a true story and it changed the course of my career as well as starting Netflix OSS. I'm forever grateful to Yuri and Ruslan Meshenberg for their support.
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Not everyone is the pitcher, the catcher, the first baseman, etc. We specialize because that's how humans work best together. Everyone should not need to know how to do everything.
Developers must work with operations - of course. The way and the what developers build must be able to be deployed in an agile manner. But, that does not mean that developers must become operations engineers as well. Leave that to the specialists in that role.
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