Production Outages: The Biggest Test of the DevOps Culture

3 years ago betterprogramming.pub

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I was looped into a production outage, and I had my first tussle with the Operations team of my application.

It definitely does not make it into the top five fights I’ve been in. Infer what you will from that about my life.

It is when devs understand the pains of ops and vice versa, that both can support each other instead of working against each other.

As a developer, it is imperative to design with failure in mind in such a culture.

If Ops goes to lunch with Ops and Dev goes to lunch with Dev, a low level of efficiency is a certainty.”

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