1 year ago

Are we in the middle of the https://devops.com/the-great-devops-burnout/? Eighty-three percent of the 258 software engineers surveyed reported feelings of burnout from high workloads, inefficient processes, and unclear goals and targets.

There is a growing conversation in the DevOps community about whether developers can or want to take on operations tasks.

Kennedy explains that cognitive load often shifts from developers to platform teams, who have to find ways to incorporate a sprawling landscape of tools into golden paths.

Platform engineering might be one part of the solution, but we have to be careful not to burn platform teams in the process.