Why Operations Teams Resist Every Technology Wave

E340 - Why Operations Teams Resist Every Technology Wave

Published: March 4, 2026

Duration: 42:55

#340: The smartest ops people are often the most likely to resist new technology -- and they're not wrong. If you don't change anything, nothing breaks, and nobody blames you. That's a completely rational choice. It's also the one that guarantees you fall behind. Bare metal to VMs, VMs to cloud, cloud to Kubernetes -- every time, the teams that played it safe ended up scrambling to catch up two years later. The safe bet isn't safe. It just feels that way.

It gets worse when you look at where the tools come from. Kubernetes? Built by developers...