> To many people's surprise, I can crank out a fully-functional side project in two to five days by having already completely automated devops. This is somethi

> To many people's surprise, I can crank out a fully-functional side project in two to five days by having already completely automated devops. This is something that did not occur to me until I have done a lot of consulting for small and medium size companies. All of them have the same basic challenges - they don't have tooling to do basic crap for example, they can blast some notification to everyone that is registered in their service but sending an email from a email-message-to-specific-set-of-people requires a workflow deploy. Same goes for provisioning a new domain and wiring it up to nodejs backend, etc, etc, etc. Automate basic devops first, from DNS management to email sending to deploys to workflows, etc. Think of every project you are going to to later being a "client" of your devops "infrastructure".