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The first and most important way of devops is be lazy.

o if you can use something premade, use it

o if you can buy in the service, buy it in (with in reason, make your own buy/build checklist)

o if you have to automate it, do it, then opensource it

o If you have made it, document it, so you don't have to answer questions.




> If you have made it, document it, so you don't have to answer questions.

Dont' communicate one-to-one, but always on an (internal) public medium, preferrably more persistent than chat.

- Need to explain something to someone? Write it a wiki and send them the link.

- Have a great idea that needs brainstorming? Document it as a proposal and open a pullrequest to discus and have it merged into architecture documentation.

- People asking questions about your code in a pullrequest? Don't explain in the PR why you did it, make your code and comments speak for itself so questions are not raised in the first place.




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