VirtuePacket

War is a romantic notion until it arrives.

It's a terrible working arrangement in most companies--particularly between dev and infrastructure teams. "Legacy" sysadmins that were previously celebrated for maintaining rock-solid environments with high uptime are now denigrated (and eliminated) when they can't make up a new shiny for MBA managers (who are not real leaders)--to peddle the same bullshit to senior executives.

It's all fucked.

Sounds about right. There is no longer any incentive to focus on maintenance and incremental improvement (the stuff that actually keeps the lights on and the revenue flowing). It's all about the new and shiny--even when it results in regression.