> Maintain 4:1 product engineer to infrastructure engineer ratio. This has been our ratio for the past several years, and it’s worked fairly well, so we intend to maintain it.
Really weird, as someone who works as a Software Engineer in systems. The number of infra programmers you have is not a ratio to be kept with product developers. It's dependent on the versatility, modularity, reliability, and performance of the platform you have internally. More plainly put, if you want only VM orchestration with very minimal features, that's a different head count that support virtual machines, FAAS, and container orchestration.
Really weird, as someone who works as a Software Engineer in systems. The number of infra programmers you have is not a ratio to be kept with product developers. It's dependent on the versatility, modularity, reliability, and performance of the platform you have internally. More plainly put, if you want only VM orchestration with very minimal features, that's a different head count that support virtual machines, FAAS, and container orchestration.