The Complete Ops Automation Library: 25+ Practical Guides for Small Teams
I've been writing about operations, automation, and incident response for small teams. Here's a complete index of every guide I've published, organized by topic.
🔥 Incident Response
- The First 30 Minutes: A Minute-by-Minute Incident Response Framework — The critical first 30 minutes of any incident, broken down minute by minute.
- Why Your Incident Response Plan Will Fail in the First 10 Minutes — Common failure points and how to fix them.
- How to Build a 24/7 Incident Response Capability Without Hiring — Automation-first approach to round-the-clock coverage.
- The 5-Minute Incident Triage System That Saves Small Teams Hours — Quick triage framework.
- Incident Response Tools Compared: PagerDuty vs Opsgenie vs the $14 Alternative — Tool comparison with cost analysis.
☁️ Cloud Cost Optimization
- The Cloud Bill Detective: Finding $30K of Waste in Your AWS Account — Step-by-step cloud cost audit framework.
- How to Cut Your Cloud Bill by 60% Without Losing Performance — Practical cost reduction strategies.
🔄 On-Call & Scheduling
- On-Call Done Right: A Practical Guide for Small Engineering Teams — Rotation rules, escalation policies, and tools.
- Why Your On-Call Schedule Is Costing You Money (And How to Fix It) — Hidden costs of poor scheduling.
- The On-Call Runbook Every Small DevOps Team Needs (Free Template) — Ready-to-use runbook template.
🏢 Small Business Operations
- The Small Business Operations Framework That Actually Works — 5 pillars of operations for teams of 2-20.
- DevOps for Small Teams: You Don't Need a Platform Engineering Team — Practical DevOps without the enterprise overhead.
🔒 Security
- The 5-Minute Security Audit: What I Check on Every New Server — Quick security checklist.
- The 12-Point Small Business Security Audit (Run It in Under 1 Hour) — Comprehensive security audit framework.
- Shadow IT: The Silent Security Gap in Your Business (5-Step Audit) — Find unauthorized SaaS tools.
- Ransomware Recovery Checklist: What to Do in the First 24 Hours — Emergency response checklist.
⚡ Productivity & Automation
- How I Cut Meeting Time by 50% With Async Ops Practices — Async-first meeting framework.
- The Documentation System That Actually Gets Read — Documentation that works.
- I Replaced 3 SaaS Tools With One Python Script: Here's What I Learned — Tool consolidation guide.
- I Calculated the True Cost of Downtime for Small Teams — Downtime cost analysis.
🍽️ Industry-Specific
- Restaurant Daily Sales Report: 20 Minutes to Revenue Clarity — Restaurant ops template.
📦 Get the Complete Toolkit
All of these articles are based on real-world experience running operations for small teams. If you want the complete toolkit with templates, scripts, and automation playbooks, check out:
Products available:
- Ops Starter Kit ($27) — Incident response playbooks, on-call templates, security checklists
- Automation Starter Pack ($47) — 10 plug-and-play automation workflows
- Agent Ops 24/7 ($97) — Complete 24/7 operations automation system
Or grab the free template library first — 10+ templates delivered to your inbox.
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