This only speaks to bloggers or developers still working in a silo style environment. in a high-velocity DevOps environment, not all of this would fly. But with that said. It was a great read and kept me engaged.
Vignesh M DevOps is the merger of development and operations into one title. Pre DevOps we use to work in silos that suffered from communication problems between the developers and the sysadmins that postponed the release of the product. I've worked for companies that had the developers on one floor and the operations on another. Since the merger of DevOps (tearing down he silos so to say) by moving us all into an open environment allowed for better communication and more efficient turnaround time from feedback loops.
High velocity is a 24/7 monitoring and maintenance of networks in shifts to keep the product available worldwide. I have a quick rundown of DevOps if you are not familiar with it (46 minute read) spohnz.com/cliff-notes-of-the-devops-handbook-cke…
So you can understand how your casual approach to development does not apply to a global scale company. I am not saying I didn't enjoy the writing. I did very much.
Thank you for the detailed reply. I have experience with devops and worked on such teams. But I did not work on worldwide products that need 24*7 care yet. As you said these won't work with such high demand teams.