Adventures in DevOps
Adventures in DevOps

DevOps trifecta: documentation, reliability, and feature flags

20 February 2026 32:00 Will Button, Warren Parad

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We dive into the shifting landscape of developer relations and the new necessity of optimizing documentation for both humans and LLMs. Melinda Fekete joins from Unleash, and suggests transitioning to platform to help get this right by utilizing LLMs.txt files to cleanly expose content to AI models.

The conversation then takes a look at the June GCP outage, which was triggered by a single IAM policy change. This illustrates that even with world-class CI/CD pipelines, deploying code using runtime controls such as feature flags is still risky. Feature flags can't even save GCP and other cloud providers, so what hope do the rest of us have.

Finally, we discuss the practical implementation of these systems, advocating for "boring technology" like polling over streaming to ensure reliability, and conducting internal "breakathons" to test features before a full rollout.

💡 Notable Links:
  • Diátaxis - Who is article this for?
  • Fern - Docs Platform
  • Episode: Latency is always more important than refreshness
  • Episode: DORA 2025 Report
🎯 Picks:
  • Warren - Show: Bosch - LA Detective procedural
  • Melinda - Wavelength - Party Game

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