I've been a DevOps/SRE engineer for 10+ years.
I've managed 50+ EKS clusters at Apple scale, built OTA firmware
pipelines for 300+ EV chargers, migrated 80 applications to AWS,
and been the sole infrastructure engineer at two energy startups
where I supported teams of 30-40 engineers alone.
In all of that time, certain tasks never stopped being painful.
47 CloudWatch alarms firing at 11pm — and you have to figure out
which 3 actually matter.
A pod CrashLoopBackOff at 2am — logs open, describe output open,
trying to diagnose while half asleep.
A Terraform plan before a production apply — tired, reviewing it
manually, knowing you'll miss something.
A weekly AWS bill spike — someone asks why, you dig through Cost
Explorer for 40 minutes.
I got tired of doing all of this manually.…