Your platform team spends sixty percent of its time on operations and has shipped nothing in two quarters. How do you get out?

Operational load is not a discipline problem. It is the interest payment on everything the team shipped without an owner, and it compounds.

Updated Oct 2026 · Grounded in researched DevOps, SRE and platform engineering interview loops, written to a senior-engineer editorial bar, and never padded to hit a word count.