DevOps: Why do we Keep Messing Up?

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Argues that DevOps fails when teams adopt tools instead of outcomes, skip the real why and stop measuring; gives concrete cases: forbidding developers from using IaC (CDK) kills velocity, platform design that forces the only route creates huge detours, and an observability migration triggers an unexpected cost spike from prod debug logs and banners. Demands automated metrics, ongoing measurement, cross-team collaboration and iterative fixes, not one-off tool installs.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:58DevOps implementation failures
3. 9:21Golden circle and DevOps
4. 15:02Platform engineering and autonomy
5. 17:55Metrics and collaboration
6. 20:23Observability cost trap
7. 24:19DevOps infinite journey

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