What I Stopped Outsourcing (and What I'll Never Build In-House)
Average DevOps engineer tenure is 2.3 years. When they leave, months of institutional knowledge walk out the door. The build-vs-buy framework that accounts for departure.
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Lessons Learned
Post-mortems, retrospectives, things I'd do differently
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The Hire You Think You Need Is Usually a Tool You Haven't Built
DockYard paid $400K/year for an office with five people in it. Most scaling problems aren't headcount problems — they're tooling problems nobody prioritized.
What I Got Wrong About Hiring
The contractor-first assumption, the "culture fit" shorthand, and hiring before the process exists. Three beliefs that cost more than the headcount they were meant to optimize.