In the case described by the author, it seems like most of the trouble would be resolved by the developer understanding the concept of "distributed file storage is hard" and coordinating with ops early - the dev doesn't necessarily need to know the details of setting that up, but they need enough understanding of the domain to realize there's work to be done on the issue.

For that matter, I suspect most sysadmin / ops teams would be happier if developers could only strip "just" out of their vocabulary (and vice versa) - nothing more annoying than "could you JUST do {thing asker doesn't understand and thinks is trivial}"