AI in DevOps 👇

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Absolute operational failure by @Lufthansa. Keeping passengers trapped on a plane for over 3 hours after a massive delay and diversion, then leaving them stranded without transport at 3 PM? Pathetic customer care. Do better. 🛑 @Lufthansa_India

10/ Your DevOps career is a production system. Build strong foundations. Reduce complexity. Automate wisely. Remove SPOFs. Measure impact. Scale when ready. Don’t build an ABCL-sized career on startup-grade foundations. 😉 #DevOps #SRE #PlatformEngineering #CareerGrowth

9/ The real lesson Don’t ask: “How many technologies can I learn?” Ask: “How much complexity can I reliably manage?” That’s the journey from Engineer → Senior → Staff → Principal.

ABCL nearly destroyed Big B financially. But he rebuilt. Production failures, bad migrations and wrong architecture decisions don’t end a DevOps career. Not learning from them might.

7/ Titles follow capability Don’t optimize for: Senior → Staff → Principal. Optimize for: Bigger problems → Better solutions → Greater impact. The title follows.

6/ Build an adjacent career Don’t randomly collect technologies. Build a path where each skill strengthens the next: Linux → Cloud → IaC → Kubernetes → Platform Engineering. Your career needs architecture too.

5/ Avoid the “hero engineer” trap If only you know production, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and DR… You’re not a single point of expertise. You’re a single point of failure. Document. Automate. Share.

4/ Manage complexity Your production system has technical debt, toil, incidents and cloud costs. So does your career. Don’t just add skills. Learn to reduce complexity and improve reliability.

3/ Automate the right things ABCL scaled complexity before stabilizing the business. Same in DevOps. Don’t automate chaos. Simplify → Standardize → Automate → Scale.

2/ Don’t confuse “more tools” with “more capability” ABCL had many businesses, but complexity doesn’t automatically create value. The same happens in DevOps. Having 40 tools on your resume doesn’t make you senior. Knowing why, when and where to use 5–10 tools effectively does

1/ Build foundations first ABCL expanded aggressively before proving that its core business model was sustainable Don’t rush to Kubernetes/AI/Service Mesh & 20 tools Master the basics: Linux > Networking > Git > Cloud > CI/CD > IaC > Observability Strong foundations compound

🧵 What Big B’s ABCL failure teaches us about a DevOps career ABCL tried to do everything at once - movies, TV, music, events, distribution & celebrity management. Big ambition. Weak foundations. And that’s surprisingly relevant to a DevOps career. 👇