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Documenting: Don’t Build Your Replacement’s Nightmare

By Don Macvittie on July 23, 20201 CommentWant to reduce headaches tomorrow? About once a year I feel the need to remind you that you are creating technical debt. DevOps is good stuff, and most shops got over the “whatever a given project team decides” multiplication of services pretty quickly, but every line of DevOps code you write is creating technical debt.

The list conveniently doubles as a handy reference to what needs updating when you find out your middleware vendor is going under or that MySQL is out and MariaDB is in.

Because it doesn’t matter how automated it is when the automation breaks—it matters how quickly staff on hand can fix it and get things going smoothly again.