Funny Stories and Anti-Patterns from the DevOps Landscape

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This talk examines concrete DevOps anti‑patterns and real postmortems, arguing that creating a separate DevOps department or hiring a single “DevOps” person often fails to fix culture. It gives anecdotes where Docker and containers hide failures, and where automation (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes) and roles (SRE) either improve operations or cause rot, explaining what was built, why deployments and incident workflows broke, and when fixes succeeded.

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1. 0:00Talk overview
2. 3:53What DevOps really is
3. 7:46DevOps department story
4. 14:49Magic DevOps story
5. 21:05Renaming roles story
6. 26:03Role separation
7. 31:40Tools misconceptions
8. 36:11Incident management
9. 42:28Magic developers story
10. 46:01DevOps diversity
11. 49:31Recommendations

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