Site Reliability Engineering

I’ve seen firsthand how AWS’s “good enough” attitude creates frustrating complexities and hidden costs, while GCP’s focus on sensible defaults and user-friendliness makes life so much easier. Seriously, AWS’s default zonal networking and their load balancer that didn’t even load balance across zones by default? Moronic! And don’t even get me started on their cluttered UI and opaque pricing. GCP, on the other hand, gets it right with global networking, intuitive interfaces, and transparent cost management. If you want a cloud platform that actually simplifies your life and lets you focus on building your product, GCP is the only game in town.

The games industry is weird: It simultaneously lags behind the rest of the tech industry by half-a-decade in some areas and yet it can be years ahead in others.

What attracted me to the industry was not the glossy veneer working on entertainment products, or making products that I enjoyed using (I wouldn’t describe myself as a gamer): I love solving problems, especially problems that are not easily solved.

In this article I talk about the confusion surrounding the term “DevOps”. I discuss what DevOps is and what it isn’t. I argue that DevOps is not a cohesive movement or methodology. DevOps is often misused as a job title. I also argue that both developers and operations staff should have some understanding of each other’s disciplines.