DevOps Do's and Don'ts: What I Wish Someone Told Me 10 Years Ago

DevOps Do's and Don'ts: What I Wish Someone Told Me 10 Years Ago It's 2 AM. Phone's ringing. Production's down. Users are mad. CEO's asking questions. And somewhere in your git history is a deployment that passed every test but somehow broke everything. Yeah. Been there. More times than I'd like to admit. I've been doing DevOps for about 10 years now, mostly as a freelancer. That means I've seen a LOT of companies, a LOT of different setups, and honestly... a LOT of the same mistakes over and over again. This isn't some theoretical best practices guide. This is stuff I learned by screwing up, fixing it at 3 AM, and promising myself I'd never do it again. (Spoiler: I did it again. We all do.) Let's Be Honest About What DevOps Actually Is Before we get into it - DevOps isn't a job title. I know, I know, my LinkedIn says "DevOps Engineer" too. But technically it's supposed to be a culture where devs and ops work together instead of hating each other. In reality though? Companies hire us t