One of the reasons the DevOps and SRE movements have had such a beneficial effect on software development is that they seek to re-establish accountability. If product engineering teams play a role in running and maintaining their own infrastructure, they are the ones who feel the impact of their own decisions. When they build something that doesn’t scale, they are the ones who are awakened at 3 am with a page. Making software engineers responsible for the health of their infrastructure instead of a separate operations team unmutes the feedback loop.
