There’s a myth in tech that never quite dies: that Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps folks, and platform engineers are just damaged goods. Failed developers. People who couldn’t hack it at writing features, so they got relegated to babysitting infrastructure and cleaning up after the “real” engineers. It’s
Every few weeks the same prophecy echoes across LinkedIn: “AI is going to replace engineers.” Let’s be clear: AI doesn’t replace engineers - it reveals them. It’s like flipping on the fluorescent lights in a dingy kitchen at 3 a.m. You don’t create the roaches;
You can feel it in the air. Something’s breaking loose in platform engineering. For the last ten years, we were told salvation came in the form of YAML. The catechism of “infrastructure as code” metastasized into an endless litany of CRDs, Helm charts, Terraform modules, pipelines — all duct-taped together
💡 Enterprise tech is laying people off. Startups are raising money. One of these wants you to fill out a form in Workday. The other needs you to ship working infra by Friday. Getting a job in the enterprise these days is like applying to be a cog in a machine
From chroot to Kubernetes. From VMs to YAML manifestos. This is the story of how we learned to ship code without shipping our sanity. 🧱 Before the Container: The Age of the Monolith Beast Back in the day, you didn’t deploy an app. You deployed a server. Sometimes by shipping
From Nagios checks and pager hell to high-cardinality tracing and human-centered debugging. This is how we learned to see. 🔔 It Started With a Ping Once upon a time, monitoring meant this: * Is the server up? * Is port 80 responding? * Is disk usage under 95%? That was it. You wrote some
It started with chaos. Then came the logs. The merge wars. The broken diffs. The rise of Git. And now? We still don’t really know how rebase works. 📁 Chapter 0: "Save As v2 FINAL (REAL THIS TIME).doc" Before version control, you saved your files like a
From SSH into prod to Git-controlled clouds — how IaC rewired the way we build, break, and believe in infrastructure. 🧊 The Snowflake Server Era Before IaC, infra was a vibe. You’d SSH into prod, run a shell script, install a package, maybe forget what you did. No version control. No
From Jenkins pipelines to GitHub Actions to AI-piloted deploys — how we got here, what we’ve learned, and what comes next. ☠️ Jenkins Will Outlive Us All Every DevOps engineer has had at least one tour of duty in Jenkins. Some of us never made it out. Born as Hudson in
Out-code the machines. Out-think the system. Outlive the hype. There’s a low hum in the tech world right now—an anxious buzz vibrating just below the surface. Layoffs. LLMs. Ghost code and ghost jobs. Everyone’s pretending they’re not scared. Let me say it straight: if you’re
Back in 2009, John Allspaw and Paul Hammond got on stage at the Velocity Conference and dropped a bombshell: “10+ deploys a day.” They were talking about how Flickr—yes, that Flickr—was deploying software ten times a day without setting the building on fire. This was radical at the
Why the best SREs write code like devs, not sysadmins You want to break into cloud engineering, platform, SRE, or DevOps? Cool. Learn to code. I don’t mean hacking together some Terraform modules you found on GitHub. I mean writing real code. Scripts, daemons, tests, CLI tools. Treating infrastructure