Living the DevOps Dream (Almost)

My life heading a DevOps team theoretically should have been a dream. We all were in high demand and paid incredibly well for simply being better at Googling stuff than most people. And the best part is that no one really knew we existed… at least until things didn’t work. 

And therein lay the rub. Nothing ever works all the time. So our Slack on-call channel was like a booby-trapped war zone, literally exploding with repetitive messages such as: