The worst part about this type of org (speaking as an SRE / DBRE) is that they also don’t do SRE correctly, so these piles of shit get yeeted into prod, fall apart, and then the already over-burdened SREs and DBREs have to figure out how it works so they can fix it.
I didn’t know how to troubleshoot Node, but I did know how to read docs. Suddenly I can troubleshoot Node. Hooray.
I concur with your sentiment, and would also be an absolute dictator for tech stack and workload management. We’re not using Node, we’re avoiding React if at all possible, every dev touching the DB in any way will know SQL, and no one is using Scrum.
I didn’t know how to troubleshoot Node, but I did know how to read docs. Suddenly I can troubleshoot Node. Hooray.
I concur with your sentiment, and would also be an absolute dictator for tech stack and workload management. We’re not using Node, we’re avoiding React if at all possible, every dev touching the DB in any way will know SQL, and no one is using Scrum.