Front-End Ops

Alex Sexton writes, on Smashing Magazine:

A front-end operations engineer would own external performance. They would be critical of new HTTP requests, and they would constantly be measuring file size and page-load time. They wouldn’t necessarily always worry about the number of times that a loop can run in a second — that’s still an application engineer’s job. They own everything past the functionality.
They are the bridge between an application’s intent and an application’s reality
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Yes! Web application frontends are getting so complicated, and so big, specializations like these are needed in companies.

Glad, Alex wrote this. I had been thinking along similar lines that past few months.