DevOps: The Absurd Journey on Half Fast DevOps

We Really Should Have Seen This Coming

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There are moments in the history of science when an idea stops being merely clever and the universe, despite its better judgement, appears to agree with it.

Einstein had one of those moments in 1919.

A solar eclipse darkened the sky, Arthur Eddington photographed stars near the Sun, and their apparent positions shifted roughly where general relativity said they ought to shift. The universe had been handed a difficult theoretical paper and, against all reasonable expectations, returned LGTM.

You Don’t Need a Tool, You Need a Map

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Consider the modern engineer: a traveler in a digital landscape, clutching a terminal like a hitchhiker clutches a towel, searching for a Single Source of Truth in a universe that is, by its very nature, indifferent. We spend our days debating the syntax of our tools, Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, as if the brand of the wrench matters more than the engine it is meant to tune, or whether we even know where we’re going.

Test, Don’t Verify: Why Confidence Is Not Evidence

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:00:00 -0500

Verification defines intent. Testing discovers reality. Confusing the two is how outages are born.

Submitted for Your Consideration: AI, Automation, and the Cookbook That Arrives After the Fire

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0500

AI automation promises relief, efficiency, and speed. But history suggests a quieter risk: systems that work perfectly while slowly erasing human understanding. The real danger isn’t failure—it’s explanation arriving too late.

The Half-Fast DevOps: DevOps Without Abdication

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:00:00 -0500

A critique of how DevOps and Agile practices are often used to compensate for bad management—shifting responsibility downward while accountability quietly disappears.

The Half-Fast DevOops Manifesto on Technical Debt

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:00:00 -0500

Technical debt didn’t hurt you. Your process did.

Half Fast DevOps: A Cloudflare Postmortem

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cloudflare: A Half Fast DevOps Postmortem

Date: November 24, 2025
Location: The Half Fast DevOps Zone
Mood: The polite nod of a man watching his boat and car roll into a lake.

The Opening Monologue

Imagine, if you will, a piece of software. It is modern. It is sleek. It is written in Rust, the language of the gods, promised to deliver us from the evils of memory corruption. It is designed to protect the internet from the robotic hordes.

Half Fast DevOps: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boulder Pushing

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What is DevOps, Really?

DevOps is sold like a ’90s alt-rock ballad—hopeful, slightly overproduced, and maybe even catchy enough to make you believe. You hear the words: collaboration, automation, velocity. You see the infinite loop diagram, lovingly crafted in PowerPoint, promising flow and harmony. It sounds like freedom. Like we’ve finally figured it all out.

But then the lyrics kick in. And you realize it’s not a love song. It’s about heroin. About suffering in silence. About burnout behind a dashboard that never turns green, instead glowing a color red that doesn’t seem to exist.