alt Hacker NewsAny developer who doesn't at least *understand* the ops side of the fence and has never spent time actually *doing* it, will make bad decisions along the way from an ops perspective. These are bad developers.
Any developer who doesn't at least *understand* the ops side of the fence and has never spent time actually *doing* it, will make bad decisions along the way from an ops perspective. These are bad developers.
I see a stark difference between understanding how it works and doing it in a professional manner.
For instance I probably have a decent understanding of what our CS team deals with, the tools they use, the volume and overall content of the customer feedback and requests that are coming to us. But I don't sit at a CS desk every day for a few hours and process the tickets of the service I'm running.