Cross-posted from "Bring Back Ops Pride" "Operations" is not a dirty word, a synonym for toil, or a title for people who can't write code. May those who shit on ops get the operational outcomes they deserve. I was planning to write something else today, but god dammit, I got nerd-sniped. Last week I published…

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Operations engineering deserves respect and recognition as a critical technical discipline, not dismissal as toil or lesser work. The distinction between dev and ops is about separation of concerns—building features versus maintaining resilient infrastructure—not coding ability. Operations absorbs the hardest technical problems to make product development simpler. The industry's abandonment of "ops" as a term of pride has created a harmful feedback loop where talented engineers avoid operations roles, leading to poor operational outcomes. Platform engineering is essentially ops with product thinking applied. Clear naming and role definition matter because teams can't optimize for both efficiency (ops) and investment (product) simultaneously.

Bring Back Ops Pride (xpost)

I do not think ‘ops’ means what you think it means

The hardest technical problems are found in ops