How I Started Worrying and Stopped Loving DevOps
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Describes three product stories where CI/CD and infra work becomes a time sink: teams chasing Kubernetes and serverless or esoteric frameworks for CV polish, pipelines that are “never done,” and platforms that cost runway without delivering features. Gives a concrete win: a UK tax office deployment rate of 30–40 deploys/day, and one client who automated regulatory checks and achieved an IPO. Advises avoid gold‑plating, prefer thinnest sufficiently reliable platform, optimize for flow, and buy not build when appropriate.
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