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Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job by bradknowles on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @06:45PM (#18126345)
Nope.

Operations is a pure cost center. Cost centers only exist for the express purpose of being compressed twice as much this month as they were last month, so that you can make them half as expensive.

Developers are valuable. They create value.

When all the good Operations staff has left because they're tired of being treated like mushrooms, all the Operations stuff gets thrown over the wall and then the Developers get told that they are now DevOps.

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Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job by toomuchtodo on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:22PM (#18126522)
Truth. Left ops for infosec and wouldn’t ever look back.
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Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job by sankumsek on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @08:43PM (#18126849)
Not trying to diminish it's role or value, but wouldn't security be kinda looked as a cost center as well?
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Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job by toomuchtodo on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @09:07PM (#18126928)
That’s a really good point as it relates to costs between security and ops. My hunch would be downtime is your own business, but data and financial loss is everyone’s (either through liability, legislation, or insurance costs).
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