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What DevOps efficiency practices have you implemented that actually improved operati
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We're trying to move from just keeping the lights on to actually improving our DevOps efficiency practices. Management wants to see measurable improvements in operational excellence, but I'm struggling to identify which practices will give us the biggest bang for our buck.
I'm looking for specific DevOps efficiency practices that teams have implemented and can point to concrete results from. Things that improved deployment frequency, reduced mean time to recovery, or increased system reliability.
What DevOps efficiency practices have you found most valuable for achieving true operational excellence in your organization?
We implemented developer self-service" as our main DevOps efficiency practice. Instead of the DevOps team being a bottleneck for everything, we built platforms and tools that let developers deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot their own services.
This required significant upfront investment in automation and guardrails, but now developers can deploy to production without waiting for us. Our team can focus on platform improvements instead of manual deployment work.
We started measuring everything as part of our operational excellence initiative. DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, mean time to recovery) gave us a baseline and helped us identify where to focus improvements.
The key was making these metrics visible to everyone, not just leadership. Teams could see how their changes affected the metrics and had autonomy to improve their processes.
We implemented blameless postmortems" as a DevOps efficiency practice. Instead of pointing fingers when things go wrong, we focus on understanding the system failures that allowed the error to happen.
This cultural change has been huge. People are more willing to experiment and take calculated risks because they know they won't be punished for honest mistakes. Our innovation velocity has increased significantly as a result.
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