When Politics Becomes Software
I have worked in a role as an SRE previously. It was kinda daunting at first, and then in the middle, it looked like I was doing politics instead of just shipping software.
It scared the hell out of me, and not because I don’t like software, but because I despise having to defend and prepare for situations which I hadn’t even fathomed before.
I was always on high alert, or most of the time, because I don’t know who, later on the chain of command, would then come at my throat to slit it because of some deployment. Or worse, when always having to defend for deployments that the development team prepared but hadn’t tested thoroughly and they NEEDED to have that in production because someone from upper management or a director told the rest of the staff to do.