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   mhoye (mhoye@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2026 21:30:04 JST mhoye

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116752805722997877

   In its infancy, the idea of "DevOps" was that if you wrote the software, you carried the pager for that software. It wasn't "Operations was handled in a developer-style environment", it was "the developers share the operations burden" and aligned incentives are magic.

   Today DevOps just means "managing service contracts in a terminal window", and it is not magic.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2026 22:02:21 JST Rich Felker

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     @mhoye Honestly I thought the original idea was bad too, for the same reason "the implementation is the specification" is bad and the same reason distros are good.

     The same party who is writing the new shiny stuff shouldn't be the one deploying it; it should be reviewed, tested, etc. by an intermediary party empowered to push back or hold things back.