Dimitar Georgievski

Everyone is a DevOps now

  • What's a DevOps?

    Initially, I wanted to name this blog “Uneducated DevOps” in homage to the Uneducated Economist, street level thoughts, opinions, analysis and perspectives from a working-class point of view, but my better half thought I could do better with my choice of adjectives. Unlike Paul Krugman, the intellectually bankrupt, orthodox Keynesian hiding behind meaningless charts and sophistry to distort simple economic truths, the Uneducated Economists breaks complex topics to a level that everyone could understand them using his experience and observing the ebb and flow of commodities like lumber.

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  • Why write, really?

    This blog started as a demo for static content generators on IPFS as a great alternative to clunky, expensive, insecure, hard to manage and scale CMS platforms like WordPress. I thought HA, no back-end infra to manage, applications rich in features, and easy to automate deployments would impress my audience, but although they liked the demo, they failed to see how WordPress could be de-throned. My blog will live to fight that argument another day.

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  • Everyone Is A Devops Now

    I’d argue if your users are not contributing to automation of the infrastructure and cloud services, they care the most than you are a sys admin in disguise. I’ve been frequently in a situation when a developer or data engineer would approach me and ask me for help with the automation of some complex workflow with cloud services I’ve never used before. After looking at the diagram I usually give them a deal – I teach them how to automate their solution in the cloud, but they’d have to do it over a GitHub repository following our best DevOps practices while I and other DevOps engineers are involved in the PR reviews of their code.

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