How DevOps Helped Us Cut Costs Without Cutting Corners

Every engineering team reaches a point where the cost of moving slowly becomes more expensive than the cost of changing how they work. For our team, that moment came when we sat down and calculated what deployment failures were actually costing us — not just in engineering hours spent on fixes, but in delayed features, lost customer confidence, and the invisible tax of technical debt accumulating faster than we could address it. Adopting DevOps practices properly was not cheap upfront. But looki