The On-Call Test of Platform Excitement
One question reveals everything about your platform maturity: 'Who wants to be on-call this weekend?'
BoringOps Articles
The Shower That Ate Your Engineering Budget
You threw out a $500 bathtub and ended up in a communal shower where the faucet, soap, water, and air are all billable events.
BoringOps: How to Position Stability for a Promotion
Stability gets ignored because it’s invisible. This is how to measure it and use it to earn a promotion.
The Chaos Anti-Patterns: When Your Ops Are Too Exciting
In BoringOps, excitement is a symptom. It reveals an architecture held together by improvisation, adrenaline, and luck. Calm systems come from design, not drama.
BoringOps vs. DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE: The Quiet Revolution
DevOps promised speed. SRE promised reliability. What we got was **agile theater**, cognitive overload, and endless reinvention. BoringOps is the counter-movement that rejects the toil to return focus to **actually** building the business.
Why Stability Is Punished: The Hidden Cost of Being Boring in Tech
The hardest part of doing boring work is explaining why you didn't do exciting work. BoringOps is not a simple technical choice; it is a battle against the politics of promotion, the pressure of vendors, and a culture that rewards visible change. This article exposes the eight hard truths that make stability difficult to sustain, and outlines what you must do to achieve operational silence in a system built to resist it.
Boring Is Earned: The Six Stages of Operational Maturity.
Every new technology must pass through the six stages of maturity, from Ignition to Friction to Stabilization. Boring is not the end of innovation. It is the inevitable destination of mastery.
BoringOps: The Efficiency Multiplier
Every exciting technology comes with a permanent capacity tax. This article argues that freed engineering capacity is the most valuable currency in tech, proving why ruthless simplicity is the greatest force multiplier for product growth.
Pillar: Longevity
Longevity keeps you from rebuilding the same system every few years and calling it progress.
Pillar: Transparency
Transparency turns systems from mysteries into machines. It removes ambiguity, shrinks incidents, and delivers truth at the speed of failure.
Pillar: Maintainability
Maintainability is the difference between a system that ages and a system that decays. It is the discipline that protects reliability from collapsing under confusion, turnover, and time.
Pillar: Resilience
Resilience is not about avoiding failure. It is about making failure uneventful. A resilient system absorbs reality, recovers quietly, and refuses to turn problems into drama.
Pillar: Simplicity
Simplicity is the discipline that makes systems operable when everything else goes wrong.
Pillar: Consistency
Consistency is the foundation of boring infrastructure. Predictability breeds trust, and trust enables speed.