🧵 What Big B’s ABCL failure teaches us about a DevOps career
ABCL tried to do everything at once - movies, TV, music, events, distribution & celebrity management.
Big ambition.
Weak foundations.
And that’s surprisingly relevant to a DevOps career. 👇
Absolute operational failure by @Lufthansa. Keeping passengers trapped on a plane for over 3 hours after a massive delay and diversion, then leaving them stranded without transport at 3 PM? Pathetic customer care. Do better. 🛑 @Lufthansa_India
@lufthansa@Lufthansa_India What’s happening with LH755 BLR–BEG via FRA?
Reached BLR at 12 AM. Flight delayed 3.5 hrs, diverted to Mumbai, landed ~9 AM. Passengers kept onboard till 12:15 PM, then stranded with no clear updates. Hotels offered, but no transport even at 3 PM.
🧵 What Big B’s ABCL failure teaches us about a DevOps career
ABCL tried to do everything at once - movies, TV, music, events, distribution & celebrity management.
Big ambition.
Weak foundations.
And that’s surprisingly relevant to a DevOps career. 👇
🧵 What Big B’s ABCL failure teaches us about a DevOps career
ABCL tried to do everything at once - movies, TV, music, events, distribution & celebrity management.
Big ambition.
Weak foundations.
And that’s surprisingly relevant to a DevOps career. 👇
9/ The real lesson
Don’t ask:
“How many technologies can I learn?”
Ask:
“How much complexity can I reliably manage?”
That’s the journey from Engineer → Senior → Staff → Principal.
10/
Your DevOps career is a production system.
Build strong foundations.
Reduce complexity.
Automate wisely.
Remove SPOFs.
Measure impact.
Scale when ready.
Don’t build an ABCL-sized career on startup-grade foundations. 😉
#DevOps#SRE#PlatformEngineering#CareerGrowth
MCP + Claude can be safe but treat every MCP server as untrusted code: verify the source, review permissions, use least privilege, and never give it access to secrets it doesn’t need. 🔐
#AI#Claude#mcp