I'm trying to get some insight into how common the ask is for developers to also manage servers. Do you have a devops person or infrastructure person for this or are developers handling it? If you are a developer doing this, how has your job changed?
Ask HN: Do you (developers) manage your own servers?
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#2I used to, but ain't nobody got time for that. Unless it's a three-people shop, in come the devops (developer time is far more expensive than devops engineer time, at least around here, so making a dev wear a devop hat is wasteful on several levels - comparative advantage and all that).
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#3Not sure if you had a subset of audience in mind, but in the "Enterprise world" (However loosely we define it:), it's extremely uncommon.
The roles are highly delineated, and developers are usually insulated from underlying platform and technology. I've worked public sector, finance, retail, manufacturing, and have rarely seen a developer even interested in anything beneath a high-level programming language and SQL.
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#4For my side project, I manage my own VPS servers. I had to do all the install and security for them.
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#5I'm a Freelancer and run my own business. I do most of my server administration.
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#6Not sure if you had a subset of audience in mind, but in the "Enterprise world" (However loosely we define it:), it's extremely uncommon. The roles are highly delineated, and developers are usually insulated from underlying platform and technology. I've worked public sector, finance, retail, manufacturing, and have rarely seen a developer even interested in anything beneath a high-level programming language and SQL.
I presume this was downvoted for "even interested in," but the kernel is simply true: the larger the organization, the more specialization.
But most are trend-followers of corporate (and broader business) cultural norms--much like open offices or similar concepts, once ops becomes part of "what they (we) do," the more typical and expected it will become.
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#7I am a freelancer, I manage about a dozen client servers and couple of my own VPSes.
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#8As a developer with personal projects, I do all system admin stuff for my side projects.
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#9I have to manage my servers (dedicated and VPS both) myself as I don't have money/resources to hire a dedicated devops person.
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#10One of the things I wonder, in reading the comments... I wonder if there would be a viable model for someone to manage the devs servers for them.
I'd love to do this, but I wonder what a good pricepoint would be? (so that it's beneficial to both parties)