lazyops.hashnode.devThe ROI of DevOps: Measuring Success Beyond Just SpeedI want to tell you a story about a brilliant engineer named Jack. Jack remembers the exact moment he realized he was measuring the wrong things. He was sitting in a glass-walled conference room, clutching a cup of lukewarm coffee, staring across the ...Dec 9, 2025·8 min read
lazyops.hashnode.devShifting Left: Integrating Security into Your DevOps Workflow (DevSecOps)It was 4:30 PM on a Friday. The team had spent the last three weeks sprinting toward a major release. The code was clean, the unit tests were green, and the celebratory drinks were already chilling in the fridge. Then, the email landed. It was from t...Dec 3, 2025·8 min read
lazyops.hashnode.devFrom Logs to Insights: Mastering Monitoring & Observability in DevOpsIt was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. I know the exact time because that is when the phantom vibration of my phone turned into a very real, very loud pager alert. I stumbled out of bed, opened my laptop, and logged into our monitoring dashboard. I expected to...Nov 28, 2025·7 min read
lazyops.hashnode.devInfrastructure as Code: Building Predictable, Scalable EnvironmentsI want to tell you a horror story. Don’t worry, there are no axe murderers or haunted houses. It’s a story about a server named "Gandalf." Early in my career, I worked at a mid-sized startup. We had this one critical server—Gandalf—that handled all o...Nov 23, 2025·8 min read
lazyops.hashnode.devCI/CD isn't a Pipeline, It's a Philosophy: Delivering Value FasterI remember vividly a project years ago where we "implemented CI/CD." We bought the fancy server, wrote the YAML files, and got the green checkmarks. Our build passed, and our code was theoretically ready to go. Yet, deployments were still dreaded, hi...Nov 17, 2025·5 min read