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        At my previous job, we had a “Devops” team. We even outsourced some ops to a third party in the worst possible way (I’m talking “oh you want to set up an alert for something related to your service? Send us an email and we’ll look into it” and so on). All the pre-devops pain magnified by an order of magnitude. Sometimes devs would do their own ops (I know, big shock!), and they would call it “shadow devops”. Nearly fell off my chair when I first heard it. Kinda glad I’m not with them anymore.

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        True. Nothing beats running your unit tests in the actual container image that will be run in production.

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          Race condition that only happens on the much faster production hardware: Allow me to introduce myself

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            Or an issue that only appears when using ARM and not on my AMD64 dev machine

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            Unit tests can’t win ’em all. That’s where things like integration tests, staging environments, and load testing come in.

            The final layer of protection is the deployment strategy, be it rolling, canary, or blue-geen.

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          Yeah, and it’s useful to just check everything so you don’t forget to add some essential system package for e.g. SSL, especially when working with Alpine.

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        Apparently doing more than one thing makes you not a programmer 😔

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      Devops isn’t a role.

      Platform Engineer maybe, but even then I’d say they were “developing” the platform.