A few years ago, I watched a team spend nearly an hour proving that their system was healthy. CPU usage looked normal. Memory was fine. The database was responding. Every dashboard was green. Meanwhile, customers couldn’t complete payments. The problem eventually turned out to be a small change in the way one service passed an…

The easiest way to spot fake DevOps is to watch what happens after a bad release. The deployment finishes. Customers begin reporting errors. Slack fills with screenshots. Then somebody says, “The pipeline passed, so this must be an operations issue.” There it is. A company can have Kubernetes, Terraform, automated tests and enough dashboards to…