Exciting infrastructure means outages, drama, and late-night calls.
Boring is predictable. Boring is stable. Boring is a good night’s sleep while the change window runs itself.
BoringOps is the discipline of making systems so dull they disappear, freeing teams to build what matters.
The Law of Excitation: The more exciting a system is, the less reliable it is. The less reliable it is, the more heroics it demands. The more heroics it demands, the closer the operation drifts toward failure.
To go deeper:
- BoringOps: The Efficiency Multiplier
- BoringOps vs. DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE
- From Chaos to Calm: Maturity is Earned
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The Closing Charge
We don’t value boredom because it is dull.
We choose boredom because it is freedom from chaos, freedom from heroics, freedom to build what matters.
Boring isn’t the enemy of progress.
Boring is the highest form of discipline.