As I learn I’m realizing that what a lot of people miss is the rigor required once you pass a certain company/infra size. The same stack and processes that work

As I learn I’m realizing that what a lot of people miss is the rigor required once you pass a certain company/infra size. The same stack and processes that worked to get you to $X million is not the one that will allow you to scale software deployments to support $X billion worth of business. Documentation, real ci/cd with multiple environments, strong access controls. It’s so easy to gloss over these when you’re small. You have someone on the team who is “the expert”, you don’t have the money to do a real blue/green setup, you don’t have the time on an incident to give someone the proper access so you just give them a shared ssh key…success at scale requires discipline that makes the work hard and not fun. But it’s the key. Once you have dozens of infra engineers and many microservice teams, this laziness (that’s what it is, I know because I’m lazy) doesn’t work.