NoOps: Playing Ice Hockey With No Defenders

Peter Christian Fraedrich
5 min readJan 23, 2024
Ice hockey player takes a shot.
Photo by gerhard crous on Unsplash

I came across a graphic recently from ByteByteGo (you may have seen their cute little animated graphics around LinkedIn) that showed the differences between traditional software development, DevOps, and NoOps. The gist of the graphic was to espouse the benefits of the “NoOps” way of doing things: let cloud providers handle all the operations work and build apps with Functions as a Service (FaaS), cutting out the…

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Peter Christian Fraedrich

Entrepreneur, software developer, writer, musician, amateur luthier, husband, dad. All opinions are my own.