Halloween Horror Stories from the Trenches
summary
A series of operational mistakes with concrete fixes: a missed Sunday peak causes an enterprise nearly to churn; a failed AWS Lambda experiment stalls because org infrastructure doesn’t support it; choosing overkill or underkill automation based on company size; copy‑pasting old pipelines that increase risk; measuring the wrong metric leads to gaming; moving devops from centralized to embedded (or vice versa) as the goal changes. One case yields a 75% decrease in incidents after targeted test automation.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and first horror story
- 3:00Ignoring your end customer
- 9:20Prioritizing cool tech over needs
- 12:30Choosing tech by company size
- 15:04Copy-pasting past solutions
- 17:22Making decisions without data
- 24:15Building wrong DevOps structure
- 26:31Summary and lessons learned
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