This is excellent. I may copy the rough format for tracking things internally at my company!
Btw, I agree with most of your decisions in here with just a few exceptions.
- kustomize > helm
- Argo > flux
My last thought is less clear though. There are good observability solutions besides datadog. Grafana Cloud is great. Honeycomb has a similar offering. But all are pretty expensive though.
If you aren’t using OpenTelemetry, you’re probably doing observability wrong!
The Locked Tomb series! It’s excellent. The first book is Gideon the Ninth.
It’s not exactly the right genre but I think it’s pretty close. Many people describe it as lesbian necromancers in space. But that’s a poor description IMO. More like mystery novels with a side of horror featuring necromancers in space. The lesbian aspect is very minor though certainly relevant to the plot.