Choose Your Own Adventure
summary
Argues for picking the simplest infrastructure that actually solves the problem and warns that every added technology becomes someone’s 2:30 AM pager duty; containers and new languages are tools not goals. Calls out containers and multi-cloud as often unnecessary complexity, points to real trade offs when teams go everyone on call or hire “full‑stack ninjas,” and claims resume‑driven choices increase long‑term operational toil rather than speed.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:15Two Bit Teams
- 1:45Failure State
- 2:15Hiding Complexity
- 2:45DevOps
- 3:15Cyber Liability
- 3:45Failure States
- 4:15Shift
- 4:45Complexity
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