Welcome! Let’s Talk About DevOps That Actually Works
👋 Welcome! Let’s Talk About DevOps That Actually Works
Hey there — I’m Francisco Meza, and welcome to my corner of the internet.
After spending over a decade deep in the trenches of DevOps and Platform Engineering, I figured it was time to start documenting some of the lessons, wins, and (plenty of) learning moments along the way. Think of this blog as a digital notepad — a place where I share real-world insights from scaling infrastructure, debugging mysterious alerts at 2 a.m., or untangling legacy CI pipelines that were duct-taped together back in 2016.
🧰 What You Can Expect Here
This won’t be a place for buzzwords or theory-only content. I want to talk about the real stuff:
Why our monitoring bill dropped by $750K after switching to VictoriaMetrics
How I helped migrate a legacy platform to Kubernetes in under 30 days
What actually breaks during a CI/CD migration — and how to fix it
The DevOps tools I love (and the ones I’d rather never see again)
Whether you’re a solo engineer figuring out Terraform for the first time, or someone leading platform efforts at scale, I hope you find something helpful here — or at the very least, relatable.
🔄 DevOps Is More Than Tools
Yes, I work with Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and all the shiny stuff — but the real challenge in DevOps isn’t just infrastructure. It’s about:
Knowing when to refactor vs. rebuild
Getting buy-in from teams that don’t care about “IaC”
Teaching others without gatekeeping
Balancing stability with speed
That’s what I want to write about. Not just how things work, but how to make them work for you.
🚀 Up Next
In the next post, I’ll break down one of the most impactful changes I’ve made recently:Using Karpenter for auto-scaling Kubernetes workloads — and what it saved us in real terms.
Spoiler: It wasn’t just money.
Until then — thanks for stopping by. If you’re into cloud-native tech, DevOps, or just want to geek out about monitoring stacks, stick around. More to come soon.
— Francisco