When Your Unhappy DevOps Customer is that Guy Down the Hall
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Team supports WebSphere Application Server and the CI/CD pipeline and finds interruptions destroy productivity — UC Irvine shows 25 minutes on average to return to a task after an interruption. Claim: investing to strengthen builds and infrastructure and hardening the pipeline measurably cuts firefighting. Tactics: set boundaries, schedule dedicated flow time in quieter windows, and adopt a mindset to expect failure. Result: fewer emergency fixes, more completed work and happier developers.
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