The DevOps Problem: Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Code

The DevOps revolution promised us speed, reliability, and scalable infrastructure. Instead, most organizations ended up with monolithic codebases, mounting technical debt, and teams that spend 70% or more of their time on maintenance rather than innovation. The DevOps Problem cuts through the hype to show you how to design a DevOps program that actually works. Drawing from real-world consulting experience across enterprises of all sizes, this book reveals why traditional Infrastructure as Code practices don't scale and provides a systematic blueprint for transformation. You'll discover: The organizational foundations that make or break DevOps success (hint: it's not about tools) Why microservice patterns revolutionize infrastructure management the same way they transformed application development How to build truly reusable modules that reduce deployment time from weeks to hours The strategic approach to modernizing years of legacy infrastructure without disrupting production systems How AI tools amplify good practices (and accelerate bad ones) A complete 24-month transformation story based on real world experiences with metrics and ROI analysis ABC Tech Group may be a fictional company but it is based on real-world experience managing DevOps transformations and cloud adoptions. Follow their journey from infrastructure chaos; security findings, unsustainable costs, and demoralized engineers to a real ROI from transformation that reduced costs, incidents, and turned their DevOps team into a competitive advantage. This book is a must read for: Technology Directors and Executives Organizations facing infrastructure scaling challenges Platform engineers tired of rewriting the same infrastructure code over and over CTOs evaluating infrastructure transformation investments DevOps teams seeking a systematic approach to eliminating technical debt Stop worrying about your infrastructure and start loving your code! View Less