You Don't Deserve to Be Happy: How to Get Frustrated with DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering and the Like

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Examines common frustrations and realistic challenges in DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering, using practical examples and daily-life stories. Covers technical and cultural obstacles that make work emotionally difficult rather than idealized, without promising solutions beyond illustrating the problems.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:02Disclaimers and context
3. 4:17Change process is traumatic
4. 7:11DevOps as renamed infra
5. 10:04Automate without docs is risky
6. 12:51Tools alone don’t solve problems
7. 14:38Don’t rush, study first
8. 16:31Company cases don’t always apply
9. 18:41POCs need tangible results
10. 20:49Team and management support essential
11. 22:13Baby steps: small deliverables
12. 23:40Structured processes before innovation
13. 25:51Leadership and peers may resist
14. 26:34Backstage: most don’t need it
15. 28:05Audience input and final thoughts

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