Devops Memes

DevOps: where developers and operations united to create a new job title that somehow does both jobs with half the resources. These memes are for anyone who's ever created a CI/CD pipeline more complex than the application it deploys, explained to management why automation takes time to implement, or received a 3 AM alert because a service is using 0.1% more memory than usual. From infrastructure as code to "it works on my machine" certificates, this collection celebrates the special chaos of making development and operations play nicely together.

How Come When I Left A Backdoor They All Lost Their Shit

How Come When I Left A Backdoor They All Lost Their Shit
Corporate amnesia at its finest! The business side freaks out about "unwanted modifications" despite literally requesting them with a ticket number to prove it. Nothing quite like the special feeling when management forgets they asked for something, then acts shocked when you deliver exactly what they wanted. The blank stare in the last panel is the universal developer experience of "I have the receipts but somehow I'm still wrong."

And It Is Only Monday

And It Is Only Monday
The cosmic horror of being assigned as a code reviewer for a 208-file pull request with +114,948 lines added and -1,130 lines removed. The giant, menacing figure represents the monstrous PR towering over the poor developer who's been summoned to review this abomination. That's not a codebase change—that's a whole new dimension of pain being introduced into your repository! The "And It Is Only Monday" title perfectly captures that sinking feeling when your week starts with what can only be described as a code war crime. Whoever submitted this PR clearly doesn't believe in atomic commits or the concept of human mercy.

If It Works, Don't Touch It

If It Works, Don't Touch It
That network switch has clearly been running flawlessly since the Clinton administration. Covered in dust, cobwebs, and what appears to be ancient plaster, it's the digital equivalent of that one load-bearing piece of code written by someone who left the company 8 years ago. Touch it? Might as well pull the pin on a grenade while you're at it. This is why network engineers develop that thousand-yard stare by year five.

The Digital Disaster Artist

The Digital Disaster Artist
When your resume is just a list of tech companies that imploded right after you left. Nothing suspicious here, folks. Just a trail of digital catastrophes following this person like a shadow. Netflix sports streaming that doesn't exist yet, CrowdStrike's Windows update disaster, Google's Gemini historical figure fiasco, Silicon Valley Bank collapse, and FTX's crypto meltdown. Hiring managers will definitely not notice this pattern of working at companies right before they face existential crises. Solid career strategy - join, collect paycheck, abandon ship, repeat.

From Minutes To Seconds To Disaster

From Minutes To Seconds To Disaster
Left: "It took me a few minutes to make BibleGPT with custom GPT. Now? 5 seconds with Devin." Right: "Who is doubting thomas" → "Sorry, an error occurred while fetching your answer." Bottom: "It exposed my API key so I had to revoke :(" The AI dev tool pipeline in 2024: Build something in 5 seconds, deploy it in 2 seconds, expose your API keys in 1 second. Progress! This is why we can't have nice things in tech. The faster we build, the faster we leak credentials. The modern developer experience is just speedrunning security vulnerabilities.

Eat, Survive, Cannot Reproduce

Eat, Survive, Cannot Reproduce
The fundamental laws of nature: eat, survive, reproduce. The fundamental laws of software: works in production, don't touch it again. Ever tried to recreate that weird bug that only happens in production but refuses to show up in your test environment? It's like trying to explain to your PM why something that worked yesterday suddenly doesn't—pure digital Darwinism. The code evolves to survive only in its native habitat, mocking our attempts to understand it. After 15 years of debugging, I've learned one truth: some bugs aren't meant to be reproduced, just documented with "fixed by unknown changes" and quietly closed.

The #1 DevOps Excuse For Legitimately Slacking Off

The #1 DevOps Excuse For Legitimately Slacking Off
The ultimate DevOps get-out-of-jail-free card! When your manager catches you sword fighting with your coworker instead of deploying that critical patch, just yell "DNS!" and watch them retreat in terror. DNS propagation is the perfect excuse because it's both legitimate and completely unverifiable. "Is he actually waiting or watching YouTube? Who knows! Better not risk questioning the DNS gods." Even the most hardened managers know better than to challenge the mysterious black hole where productivity goes to die.

The Cavern Of Cloud Computing Lies

The Cavern Of Cloud Computing Lies
The cloud computing evolution depicted as a cave of lies! At the surface, we've got that ancient PC gathering dust under some desk—you know, the one IT forgot about but somehow still runs your company's critical payroll system. Dig deeper and you find EC2 instances, the "I'm totally in control of my infrastructure" phase. Go deeper still and there's Kubernetes, where DevOps engineers spend 80% of their time configuring YAML files and 20% explaining why everything is broken. And at the very bottom? "Serverless"—the promised land where servers supposedly don't exist, but you're actually just renting someone else's servers while sacrificing all debugging capabilities. The deeper you go, the more you pay for "simplicity" that requires a PhD to understand!

Im Glad They Sorted This They Must Have Been Paying Millions For Those Vscode Liscences

Im Glad They Sorted This They Must Have Been Paying Millions For Those Vscode Liscences
Government efficiency at its finest! 🤣 Paying for 250 VSCode licenses when only 33 are being used is peak bureaucracy! The best part? VSCode is literally FREE for everyone else on planet Earth! It's like buying 250 tickets to breathe air and then only using 33 of them. Tax dollars hard at work buying premium versions of stuff that's already free! And don't get me started on those 380 Microsoft 365 licenses with ZERO users. Someone's getting a performance bonus for this stellar resource management!

Aggressively Wrong

Aggressively Wrong
The classic battle between management fantasy and engineering reality. First guy thinks one "rockstar" database wizard can replace a legacy system for just $1M. Second guy delivers the brutal reality check with a step-by-step breakdown that screams "I've actually done this before and still have the trauma to prove it." Nothing like watching someone confidently propose a weekend project for what's actually 3 years of migration hell, integration nightmares, and legacy data that makes archaeologists look lazy. The confidence-to-competence ratio is just *chef's kiss*.

Pick Your Poison: Waterfall Or Agile

Pick Your Poison: Waterfall Or Agile
HR: "Do you work in Agile?" Developers everywhere: *silent screaming* The truth hits harder than a failed production deployment at 4:59 PM on Friday. Whether you choose Waterfall (one big sequential pile of 💩) or Agile (the same pile, just broken into multiple sprints of 💩), you're still dealing with... well, you know. The only real difference? In Agile, you get to experience the disappointment in two-week increments instead of all at once. It's like choosing between getting punched once really hard or getting slapped repeatedly for eternity. Such innovation. Much methodology.

Take It From A Big Problem To Not My Problem

Take It From A Big Problem To Not My Problem
Ah, the classic developer escape hatch! This meme perfectly captures that moment in bug-fixing purgatory when you've spent 17 hours staring at the same broken code, and suddenly a lightbulb goes off—not to fix it, but to rebrand it . "It's not a memory leak, it's automatic cache clearing!" The dark art of turning catastrophic failures into marketable features is basically a required skill on any resume. The penguin's smug face says it all: "Ship it now, fix it never." This is basically how half of all software release notes are written.