Comment by fhirzall

Hey pmlnr, author here. I think what the post is trying to say is that the ops team will still be at the company, but the communication overhead across teams will be less of a burden. Your ops team will still be thinking about cost, scalability - but your developers can focus on shipping features. We also mention that this is a good approach for early stage startups looking for product market fit, i.e scalability and server costs still haven't become an issue at this stage.