💻Introduction to DevOps
**DevOps** is a methodology that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to improve collaboration between teams, speed up the development cycle and increase software quality. The aim of DevOps is to break down the traditional barriers between developers and operators, promoting a culture of continuous integration, automation and fast, reliable software delivery. Some of the main concepts and practices within DevOps: 1. **Continuous Integration (CI)**: The practice of integrating the code of all developers into a central repository several times a day. This allows problems to be detected quickly and facilitates the delivery of incremental updates. 2. **Continuous Delivery (CD)**: Extension of continuous integration, where code is automatically tested and deployed in production or near-production environments, ensuring that changes are always ready for release. 3. **Test automation**: Automated testing is essential to ensure that the code delivered is of high quality. Automation helps reduce manual effort and minimize human error. 4. **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)**: Automating infrastructure through scripts and code. This makes it possible to manage servers, networks and other IT components in an automated and reproducible way. 5. **Continuous Monitoring**: Continuously monitoring the performance and health of applications in production to detect and resolve problems quickly. 6. **Collaborative Culture**: DevOps promotes a culture of continuous collaboration between developers, operators and other stakeholders. Open communication and the sharing of responsibilities are fundamental. 7. **DevOps tools**: There are several tools that support DevOps practices, such as Jenkins (CI/CD), Docker (containerization), Kubernetes (container orchestration), Ansible, Puppet or Chef (infrastructure automation), and Prometheus and Grafana (monitoring). **Benefits of DevOps**: + **Speed**: Increases the speed of software delivery by automating and streamlining processes. + **Reliability**: Improves software quality with continuous testing and frequent integration. + **Scalability**: Facilitates infrastructure management and scalability with IaC and automation. + **Collaboration**: Promotes a culture of collaboration between teams, breaking down organizational silos. If you're interested in talking about the subject, you can leave a message in [this room](https://chat-to.dev/chat?q=Programmer) or a comment here on the post and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
I feel that there needs to be a fine line for businesses to understand. devops does not mean ill develop and maintain both my project and all of the infrastructure to keep it running. That is a different role. you dont get a 2 for one. Having devop skills means that as your are developing, your are aware of the production environment that it will be ran in and can create your project in a way that is friendlier to maintain. being able to understand the tools that a sys admin uses and thinking about the long term is your target. Its to help the 2 teams collaborate. dont let businesses push you around and get a 2 for 1 for free. I only bring this up because i read job descriptions and what they intend you to do on indeed and it makes me feel that these people dont know any better or they want a do-it-all for the price of 1.
my question is: can a good backend programmer have great mastery of how to scale a robust application? in my view, I don't think so
I think it depends how far its going to scale up. It take a surprisingly small amount of infrastructure to run some things that might have a user base in the thousands. all about what type of service and how optimized it is and all that crap. Anyways learning backend will not make you a good sys admin, you need to learn and get different certs for that. However you can totally learn both, just be sure to let your company not take advantage of you.
the fucked up thing about all this is that companies always take advantage