A Half-Fast DevOps reflection on AI, automation, and the recurring ironies first described decades ago—now unfolding again, faster, and with greater confidence.
Welcome to Half Fast DevOps — a collection of essays for people who love systems, hate buzzwords, and write YAML with a side of existential dread.
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Or just wait for prod to break and click the first link that makes you feel less alone.
The Half-Fast DevOps: DevOps Without Abdication
DevOps was meant to expose management failure, not compensate for it. This essay argues that when DevOps becomes a survival strategy instead of an organizational discipline, it enables abdication, not empowerment.
The Half-Fast DevOops Manifesto on Technical Debt
Technical debt isn’t the villain; mismanagement, velocity theater, and denial are. A Half-Fast DevOops field guide to debt, rot, and responsibility.
Half Fast DevOps: A Cloudflare Postmortem
A rusty look at an internet service provider that wasn’t
Half Fast DevOps: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boulder Pushing
A smart, cynical, Camus-tinged introduction to DevOps for the burned-out, bootstrapped, and barely hanging on.