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A Eulogy for DevOps
The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?
In reality DevOps as a practice looks much more like how Facebook operated, with employees committing to production on their first day and relying extensively on real-world signals to determine success or failure vs QA and tightly controlled releases. This model was sustainable when money was free and cloud budgets were unlimited, but once that gravy train crashed into the mountain of "businesses need to be profitable and pay taxes" that stopped making sense. In my own personal circles it feels like a real return to basics, as small and medium organizations abandon technology like Kubernetes and adopt much more simple and easy-to-troubleshoot workflows like "a bash script that pulls a new container".
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