Good DevOps Engineers Leave Trails Not Gates

I find it ironic that I officially hold the title of DevOps Engineer, because I’ve always believed DevOps wasn’t meant to be a job title. DevOps is a philosophy. It’s a culture of collaboration, shared ownership, and breaking down silos, not building new ones. Putting it on a business card was always a little counterintuitive to me. That distinction shapes a lot of how I think about this kind of work. The technical part is only half of it Platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, whatever you want to call it, the technical work matters. But so does the people and process side. In my experience that part is often underestimated. If the real problem is process, fix the process. Don’t engineer around it. When someone on your team can’t get what they need to do their job, that’s worth a closer look.

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