Author argues ops should avoid app-dev practices

The author argues that importing the software-engineering playbook into operations wholesale fails because application development and infrastructure represent fundamentally opposing paradigms. While applications are stateless, transient, and disposable, infrastructure is stateful, persistent, and singular. Consequently, practices like DRY, feature branches, and dynamic orchestration create fragility in ops, requiring a shift toward determinism, static rendering, and diffs reviewed ahead of deployment. Open article →