The Dark Side of Infrastructure
summary
The talk examines hidden problems in infrastructure work—unexpected cloud or service costs, security risks from misconfiguration, and surprising operational complexity—and argues these can be turned into advantages with experience. It discusses practical awareness and practices to reduce surprises and make infrastructure work more reliable, cost-effective, and easier for teams.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Talk origin
- 2:09Automation pitfalls
- 3:35Dark side of infrastructure
- 5:00Costs and attacks
- 9:11LatAm practices data
- 10:36Cost optimization tips
- 13:23Security in IaC
- 15:10Efficient teams
- 17:40Shared resources
- 20:11DeOps book launch
- 22:21Proactive practices
- 23:44Closing
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