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>>But when you hit some critical outage, edge case, etc., those people running the systems have such a different relationship to the system having simply maintained it vs. built it.

Long stays in most companies are practically non-existent these days, apart from a few folks who are present for long, unfortunately these people are often called lifers, coasters etc.

Simply put, no one person can say they contributed most to the building of a system. Barring very few rare projects.

So you already need the runbook, documentation model to run things, for the reason people themselves work along those lines.



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