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What can we do better as DevOps Engineers?

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What can we do better as DevOps Engineers?

It's not easy to answer this question without sounding like I'm promoting myself (though that might be true).

DevOps engineer tries to make things easier for the developers to test and deploy code faster in a consistent way. That’s not new.

But how can we do better?. From my experience, just having the ability to understand what are the struggles the companies are facing and looking for a solution is the key. In the other hand, just trying to break the endless conflicts between developers and devops is something we should focus on a lot.

Several time I’ve heard: Don’t give a developer access to anything, they will break things and they will ask to our team to fix it. Yes, that could happen. But the same could happen with DevOps Engineers / DBAs / Network administrators, etc. We are all in the same page here, we try to make it right, and all can make mistakes.

Several times I’ve heard: Why they want to have readonly to the terraform modules?. My question would be, why not?. We should be fostering for transparency, and if the developers have a better idea, if they have a way of doing something, why not getting their feedback.

M

Good thought 🙂

S

Thanks Mayank!

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I’m Sergio Aguila. I was born in Argentina, I’m married to my life partner, Manuela, and I’m the father of Gemah (a 4 years beautiful girl). Before the pandemic, we had the chance to travel more than what I’ve ever imagined.

Besides that. What I do?..., well…,I’ve studied Computer Engineering, and had the chance to work as Technical Support, Operations Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, and lately (since the term was invented) as a DevOps Engineer. I was lucky enough to work in Argentina, New Zealand, Germany and the last few years I’ve been working remotely, for US startups from Argentina.

Well, if you are still reading this. Probably would like to know a bit more technical details on my expertise. I’m passionate about Cloud Computing, DevOps, Automation, etc. My tech stack in a nutshell is AWS, Linux, Containers and Terraform.

I’ve been willing to start writing for a while, but for one reason or another I didn’t have the chance to do it before. I hope you enjoy and find my articles helpful!.