DevOps needs to go away. It is lasting longer than I thought and that is bad. DevOps is the way IT should just be, successful IT. DevOps is like saying we should be good people and care for each other. It is just something we all know we should do but some do it great and others are bad at it. IT should just be better by automate everything, have empathy and continuous improvement. I am pationate about this because DevOps is associated with app dev and ops but all IT should be run this way. So yes, DevOps should die and IT should just get its act together and be successful.
Over the past few months of interviewing and researching dozens of companies—particularly small to mid-sized SaaS businesses—one pattern keeps emerging: the desire to stand up a Cloud Operations (Cloud Ops) organization. It makes sense on the surface. Cloud is now the infrastructure of choice, so naturally, someone needs to “own” it. But what’s unfolding in practice often misses the mark. Many companies are attempting to solve growing cloud complexity by taking all their DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering talent and consolidating them into a Cloud Ops team. The idea? Share them across product teams so no one gets overwhelmed. If that sounds familiar, it should. It’s the same centralization tactic used by traditional IT for decades. And it's creating the same problems. When Cloud Ops Becomes Old IT in Disguise Here’s the playbook we’re seeing: Move DevOps, SRE, and Ops into a central Cloud Ops team. Let them handle infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud securit...
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