Replacing operations with developers

I'm swamped right now (the perils of live-blogging), but instead of finishing up the half written post I have at the top of the queue, I wanted to point to two posts from Dare Obasanjo entitled "Replacing Operations with Developers"  and "Amazon Developer on Replacing Operations with Developers".

I'm not at all surprised at the Amazon article - the reality is that the skill set for a developer and the skill set for an operations team member are subtly different and it's not surprising that developers make lousy operations people.