Me: (8pm. Have a cocktail in me. Calming down after a busy day.)

Slack: Ping!!

Me: What’s going on?

Slack: Application XYZ has three IPs assigned. We need forty IPs.

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So? In a well-designed cloud-hosted app this should take all of a few minutes... or better yet, be self-service.

This is what they mean when they say “cattle, not pets” and “infrastructure as code”

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I am getting the point, but the point is purely excuses. Blaming things outside your control isn’t productive. You know how people at your firm and other consultancies love to say “you own your own career path”? This is what they mean.

You can suffer as an order-taker in a pure delivery role forever, and always have the same complaints regardless of client and technology stack, or you can make the changes that improve your life, your team, the product, and the client’s agility. I promise you will get recognized and rewarded for it. I don’t care what your specific role or responsibility is, there is always something you can do to improve it. Even in my college summer job as a lowly temp doing data entry I was able to find ways to improve the process and throughput.

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