There are many ways to run a DevOps team. Is there a recipe in this post to run the best ops team ever? Certainly not. This is just the starting point: the basic things you need to look for when everything is on fire and you can’t just double or triple the size of the team.

How the ops team at a startup might start

I wish I was able to start this section by saying “of the 74 ops teams I helped build over the last 20 years…”, I can’t. But I’ve seen a lot of examples of people starting products, some successful, most of them not at all.

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