Jon Price

DevOps, automation, cloud operations, and AI-assisted engineering notes. 17+ years across infrastructure, AWS, and engineering leadership.

Daily DevOps

Daily DevOps

DevOps, automation, and cloud operations field notes

Daily DevOps is where I collect the practical notes, experiments, scripts, and hard-won lessons that come from keeping systems running and making engineering work less manual. Expect ramblings about infrastructure automation, CI/CD, AWS, observability, security-minded operations, AI coding workflows, and the glue code that turns repeatable work into reliable systems.

What I Write About

Automation That Removes Toil

Small scripts, agent workflows, CI/CD patterns, and infrastructure-as-code practices that replace repetitive operations with repeatable systems.

Cloud Operations in the Real World

AWS architecture, cost control, tagging, security baselines, migrations, serverless tradeoffs, and the operational details that rarely fit into clean reference diagrams.

DevOps Lessons Learned

Practical retrospectives on build pipelines, deployment safety, incident prevention, observability, team workflows, and the messy middle between platform engineering and application delivery.

AI-Assisted Engineering

Notes on using agents, automation, and LLM-backed workflows to speed up delivery while keeping humans in the loop for design, review, and production responsibility.

Why This Site Exists

  • Capture the useful bits: Turn one-off fixes and experiments into searchable notes.
  • Share practical examples: Prefer working patterns, commands, and tradeoffs over polished vendor-speak.
  • Build in public: Document the automation ideas and DevOps habits I keep coming back to.
  • Connect the dots: Cloud, security, platform engineering, and AI tooling all overlap in day-to-day operations.

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Disclaimer: These are personal technical notes and professional opinions from hands-on infrastructure, cloud, and automation work. Treat them as field notes, not official guidance from any employer or vendor.

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