Availability Should Follow the Workload, Not the Infrastructure
DevOps.com, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
Platforms automate deployment but not recovery; the next step is automating recovery decisions and measuring application-level resilience.
The author asks why software delivery is almost fully automated while production failures still trigger bridge calls, stale runbooks and waits for the one engineer who knows the system.
Kubernetes orchestrates workloads but does not guarantee application-level resilience or business availability, and modern infrastructure is not the same as resilient infrastructure.
The next maturity curve for platform engineering is intelligent operational automation that automates repeatable recovery decisions, tests failure regularly and measures application recovery rather than infrastructure recovery alone.