A year or so after I left they ran out of money. They would've lasted longer if the infra guy would've just stayed the backend guy and helped get projects done more quickly instead of shiny k8s setups for projects with a dozen end-users per day. Recently I saw that the CTO has started a new startup - and ironically the only guy who he took with him onto the new team looks to have been the infra guy!
I don't blame infra guy, he genuinely believed he was doing the right thing.
Devops engineers did not know 101 of cable management or what even a cage nut is and being amazed to see a small office running 3 used dell servers bought dirt cheap, and shocked when it sounded like a air raid when they booted up, thought hot swapping was just magic.
It is always the case - earlier in the 80s-90s programmers were shaking their heads when people stopped learning assembly and trusted the compilers fully
This is nothing and hardly is shocking? new skills are learnt only if valuable otherwise one layer below seems like magic.
