Sophie Wilson, Author at DevOps Oasis

Leadership Mistakes We Put Into Production Before Lunch

Six leadership anti-patterns from our platform team: approval bottlenecks, hero culture, bad paging routes, misleading metrics, and unpaid on-call.

August 17 by Sophie Wilson Leadership

Terraform That Teams Can Actually Trust

Build dependable Terraform workflows with clear state rules, small modules, reviewed plans, version pins, and drift checks that keep changes safe daily.

August 3 by Sophie Wilson Terraform

Microservices Without the Drama

A practical guide to microservices: service boundaries, data ownership, deployment, observability, and when simpler architecture is the smarter choice.

July 2 by Sophie Wilson Microservices

SRE That Actually Works In Production

Practical sre guidance for production teams: SLOs, error budgets, alerting, automation, incident response, and postmortems that actually help.

June 20 by Sophie Wilson SRE

Microservices Without The Headaches

Microservices can speed delivery and scaling, but they add complexity. Here’s how we design, deploy, and run them without the usual chaos.

June 10 by Sophie Wilson Microservices

Helm Done Right for Predictable Kubernetes Releases

Helm helps us package, configure, and ship Kubernetes apps with safer upgrades, clearer values, and fewer YAML-driven surprises.

May 18 by Sophie Wilson Helm

Ansible Without the Headaches: A Practical Team Guide

A practical guide to ansible for teams: playbooks, inventory, secrets, testing, and where it fits in modern DevOps without added complexity.

May 11 by Sophie Wilson Ansible

Agile Delivery Without Drama: A DevOps Manager’s Notes

Practical agile delivery for DevOps teams: small batches, fast CI, safe releases, real observability, and retros that lead to change—not extra meetings.

May 4 by Sophie Wilson Agile

Compliance Without Tears: Practical DevOps Guardrails

Practical DevOps compliance guardrails: policies as code, CI evidence, IAM hygiene, encryption, incident process, and audit prep without slowing delivery.

May 2 by Sophie Wilson Compliance

Practical sre Habits That Keep Services Boring

Practical sre habits: define SLOs, use error budgets, reduce alert noise, write 3 a.m. runbooks, ship progressively, run blameless postmortems, and automat

April 24 by Sophie Wilson SRE