Running a developer platform successfully is a daunting undertaking, one of navigating a multitude of technologies (Kubernetes? Pulumi? GitHub Actions? AWS?) and of being the support base for other developers to ship their product. When things run smoothly, no one thanks you as it is just the status quo, upheld. When things break, you’re woken up at 4am to fix it. You watch as the product teams get the kudos, the promotions, the excitement, and access to the product managers. And yet…you love seeing their success. You just wish that you could share in it some more.

But upholding the computing status quo is invisible work most of the time. Preventing outages is just not as noticeable as that new shiny feature. And moreover - it takes a completely separate skill set to be a good DevOps engineer.

I am here to tell you that in order to grow as a DevOps engineer, you should try running a household the way that worldwide, (mostly) women are expected to do. From laundry and meal planning to ensuring everyone washes their hands and gets their shots, to presenting a friendly environment people like to live in, the parallels are everywhere once you know where to look. And yes: the flip side of this coin is for society to stop undervaluing women’s work and recognize its importance.

DevOps is to engineering what is (traditional) women’s work to the rest of humanity - unseen, unsung, full of chores, and absolutely vital to the continued existence of society. Buckle up; we’ve got work to do.

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