Operations: the last Mile for DevOps

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Argues that operations are the missing “last mile” and documents concrete fixes: avoid siloed ticket-driven escalation, shift control toward responders with shift left decision-making, measure and fund toil reduction and SRE-style error budgets, and build self-service operations — pull-based APIs and runbooks that replace queues. Cites Docker/Kubernetes, HipChat, CI pipelines and a real result: Ticketmaster cuts incident cycle from 47 to 3.8 minutes (about 90%), showing the pattern actually works.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:05The Last Mile
3. 3:37What Happens after Deployment
4. 28:18Netflix Model
5. 29:37Self Service Operations
6. 30:11Self Service Operations Pattern
7. 32:08Recap

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