Understanding the four strokes of the Infrastructure as Code engine.
DevOps: The Absurd Journey
DevOps was supposed to make work better. Somewhere along the way, it became louder.
Half-Fast DevOps is about systems that hold at 2:37 a.m., automation that reduces suffering, and teams that don’t survive on heroics. Don’t panic. Make it boring. Make it humane.
Now live with what you built.
Test, Don’t Verify: Why Confidence Is Not Evidence
Part II of the SQLite testing series: a clearer, harder look at why verification alone never survives contact with production.
Submitted for Your Consideration: AI, Automation, and the Cookbook That Arrives After the Fire
A Half-Fast DevOps reflection on AI, automation, and the recurring ironies first described decades ago—now unfolding again, faster, and with greater confidence.
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.
