Hi, I admire you are doing those videos, nice sound and vizuals! But the opinion about the devops is kinda naive. We often get bunch of technical debt infra as a code and need to plan and do cloud migrations, sre, new features/technologies, etc. I agree that if you are self sustainable vertical team and you just need some infra going, simple cdk or terraform is enough. But to be really responsible for some larger scale than few apps, it's challenging. My opinion is that the reason that companies are willing to pay slightly more for that role is because the senior devops/platform engineer/sre can be responsible for overall infra solution and it's reliability and security. Again, good job with the videos, good luck with your projects!
Hi, I agree with your view. It is especially true for larger organizations where rollouts and system administration are handled by dedicated team or even distributed across several teams. AWS CDK is designed for companies with limited resources and those firms often cut costs on infra teams. In the end, it is a cost-center that doesn't produce visible increments to clients. DevOps isn't dead (at least yet) and I can clearly see benefits of having infra teams but the harsh reality is that those teams are understaffed at most smaller organizations (especially startups). That's why I believe software engineers should be familiar with AWS to certain degree. Knowing core AWS services, how to debug if something is down, how to read logs and create infra PoCs or even running their own development stack.
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Hi, I admire you are doing those videos, nice sound and vizuals! But the opinion about the devops is kinda naive. We often get bunch of technical debt infra as a code and need to plan and do cloud migrations, sre, new features/technologies, etc. I agree that if you are self sustainable vertical team and you just need some infra going, simple cdk or terraform is enough. But to be really responsible for some larger scale than few apps, it's challenging. My opinion is that the reason that companies are willing to pay slightly more for that role is because the senior devops/platform engineer/sre can be responsible for overall infra solution and it's reliability and security. Again, good job with the videos, good luck with your projects!
Hi, I agree with your view. It is especially true for larger organizations where rollouts and system administration are handled by dedicated team or even distributed across several teams. AWS CDK is designed for companies with limited resources and those firms often cut costs on infra teams. In the end, it is a cost-center that doesn't produce visible increments to clients. DevOps isn't dead (at least yet) and I can clearly see benefits of having infra teams but the harsh reality is that those teams are understaffed at most smaller organizations (especially startups). That's why I believe software engineers should be familiar with AWS to certain degree. Knowing core AWS services, how to debug if something is down, how to read logs and create infra PoCs or even running their own development stack.