@Weng said in Is DevOps also a manifestation of white male privilege?:
@apapadimoulis It's used a lot. By the tens of thousands.
And yes, by and large it's a management failure. One that's been underway for literally decades.
These subsystems accreted over the past 30 years, mostly through M&A. Some of them have direct lineages back to 70's big iron.
This is Fortune 500 legacy manufacturing. IT can tell senior management stuff until we're blue in the face and we'll never actually get to fix that giant ball of mud properly, it's too risky.
Hell, we recently spun off into 3 separate companies along very deep dividing lines. The first our CIO heard about it was on the news after it was announced to investors. With a hard date by which it would be complete. And a $0 IT budget.
We STILL haven't finished disentangling the IT two years after that date.
What works for small businesses should also work for huge ones, but good fucking luck convincing them of that.
I can almost see that one, and I don't tend to be a management sympathizer. There are substantive reasons for keeping that kind of information on a very strict need-to-know basis. Every additional person who knows before the public does is an additional risk of insider trading, etc.