I asked myself this question at my first job at Scalable Capital, 4 years ago. I had started at a FinTech startup/scaleup with somewhere between 50 and 100 engineers, enthusiastic about DevOps and a You build it, you run it mindset, which I learned about in my software engineering education in university.
But reality hit hard. You can't simply give every engineer full production access, justifying lax credential management with We want to give people ownership and trust.
Should Developers have production access?
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