DevOps

📚 Table of Contents The Friday Night Panic: When Deployments Go Wrong Why Your Team Should Care About Jenkins Today What This Actually Means for Your Product Timeline What You Need to Get Started Getting Jenkins Running: The Setup Docker Option (Easiest) Direct Installation First-Time Configuration How Jenkins Pipelines Work (In Plain English) Two Ways to Build Pipelines The Five Steps Every Pipeline Needs Your First Pipeline: A Simple Test Building a Real Pipeline: The Complete Example Step 1: Pull Your Code Step 2: Get Dependencies Ready Step 3: Check Code Quality Step 4: Test Everything Step 5: Build Your Application Step 6: Ship It Advanced Tactics to Speed Things Up Storing Secrets Safely Running Tasks Simultaneously Alerting Your Team Automatic Triggers When Things Break: Troubleshooting Making Your Deployments Lightning Fast Protecting Your Product Tracking What Matters Real Example: How It Transformed One Company Your 30-Day Implementation Plan Common Questions PMs Ask The Bottom Line The Friday Night Panic: When Deployments Go Wrong It’s Friday at 11 PM. Your biggest feature just went live. Fifteen minutes later, your phone explodes with error alerts. Users are stuck on the login screen. Your support team is drowning in tickets. Your CEO is asking why this happened. ...

Table of Contents The Silent Killer in Your AI Stack What the Hell is TOON Anyway? Why This Actually Matters The Four Fighters: TOON vs JSON vs CSV vs YAML Format Showdown: When to Use What Real Numbers: The TOON Savings Calculator Use Case Battle Royale The Visual Proof How to Actually Implement TOON The Honest Trade-Offs Quick Reference Cheat Sheet Your Next Steps The Silent Killer in Your AI Stack You know that feeling when your LLM API bill arrives and you think, “Wait, I’m paying HOW much just to send data back and forth?” ...

Table of Contents The $47K Lesson: Why This Guide Exists Why Understanding This Actually Matters The 5-Phase Journey (It’s Not Just “Deploy”) Phase 1: Planning - Where Most Disasters Start Phase 2: Development - What “Code is Done” Actually Means Quick Check-In: Where We Are Phase 3: Build & Package - The Automated Safety Net Phase 4: Testing & Validation - Before Users See It Phase 5: Deployment - Going Live Deployment Strategies: Which One Actually Works For You Build Failure Troubleshooting Guide Deployment Disasters I’ve Witnessed When Things Go Wrong: Incident Response Real Timelines: Stop Guessing, Start Planning Your Role as PM in This Entire Process PM’s Incident Response Playbook Questions to Ask During Sprint Planning Measuring Success: These Are the Metrics That Matter Your Action Plan: Start This Week Final Thoughts The $47K Lesson: Why This Guide Exists Two years ago, I made a mistake that cost our company $47,000 in one weekend. ...

Table of Contents Introduction What You’ll Learn Understanding and Managing Technical Debt How to Ask Better Questions During Sprint Planning Collaborating Proactively With DevOps Teams Using DevOps Metrics for Product Decisions Real-World Scenarios: Applying DevOps Knowledge Common Mistakes Product Managers Make With DevOps Essential Questions to Ask Your DevOps Team Wrapping Up: From Knowledge to Action Introduction You understand CI/CD. You know the difference between Kubernetes and containers. You can hold your own in technical conversations. ...

Table of Contents Introduction What You’ll Learn What DevOps Actually Means (And Why You Should Care) The Product Manager’s Stake in DevOps Success Breaking Down CI/CD: The Engine of Modern Product Development Containers and Orchestration: Why Your Team Keeps Mentioning Docker and Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code: Managing Systems Like Software Deployment Strategies: Understanding Blue-Green, Canary, and Rolling Releases Monitoring and Observability: Understanding What’s Actually Happening in Production Wrapping Up: Your DevOps Foundation Introduction You’re sitting in sprint planning when your engineering lead says, “We need to refactor the CI/CD pipeline before shipping this feature.” Everyone nods. You nod too. But internally? You’re wondering what that actually means for your roadmap, your timeline, and whether you should push back or agree. ...