About

Oh My Ops is a collection of practical DevOps guides, stacks, and tools for small engineering teams and early‑stage startups.

It exists for a very specific situation: you’re building a product with a small team, you need production to be stable, and you don’t have time (or budget) to run a full internal platform team.

What you’ll find here

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• Guides: high‑signal articles about CI/CD, cloud, observability, security and cost control.
• Stacks: opinionated “copy‑pasteable” setups (what to run, why, and what to skip).
• Tools: comparisons and short reviews focused on trade‑offs and operational effort.

Everything is optimized for teams that want to move fast without accumulating invisible operational debt.

Principles

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1) Prefer boring defaults

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If a tool or architecture choice increases complexity without buying real risk reduction, it’s probably not worth it at your stage.

2) Minimize moving parts

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Small teams don’t fail because they “lack microservices”. They fail because too many components become nobody’s responsibility.

3) Make reliability cheap

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You don’t need enterprise everything. You need a handful of basics done consistently:

• predictable deployments
• backups you’ve tested
• a few alerts that actually matter
• logs and metrics that answer “what changed?”

Who writes this

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I’m an engineer who has worked close to production for years (DevOps/SRE/platform work) across early products, growing teams and big tech companies. I’ve seen the same patterns repeat:

• CI/CD breaks when nobody owns it.
• “Just add Kubernetes” turns into a part‑time job.
• Observability becomes a tool pile, not a capability.

Oh My Ops is my attempt to turn those lessons into usable, small‑team documentation.

If you want help

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If you’d like help applying the ideas here to your own product, check the Services page. Typical engagements are short audits, targeted setup work (MVP infra, CI/CD, observability), or ongoing mentoring.