> I can't imagine that responsibility for MY code in production (and delivery of the said code to production) lies on a different team/department that are possibly not even on the same floor/building I'm at.

I recently did some interviews with our devs to find out what features we could add to our platform that would provide them with value. The result was interesting and I found that people typically fall into one of two camps: 1) I want to know everything about my deployed service and have tools that alert me and allow me to intervene, or 2) I don't want to know anything about the deployed service runtime and expect operations to handle my issues and alert me when there's a problem.

It sounds like you might be in the former. =)