---
title: "Common DevOps Mistakes and How to Avoid Them — Tips for Startups"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/common-devops-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them-tips-for-startups-znfutahc0
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-avoid-devops-mistakes
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
published: 2026-05-14T21:01:30.107Z
updated: 2026-05-14T21:01:52.488Z
tags: ["security", "aws", "devops", "cicd", "iac"]
reading_time: 27
upvotes: 6
comments: 0
language: en
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# Common DevOps Mistakes and How to Avoid Them — Tips for Startups

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 27 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A practical breakdown of ten common DevOps mistakes made by early-career engineers at startups, covering deploying without understanding systems, testing in production, hardcoding secrets, overengineering, missing observability, neglecting security, manual deployments, lack of disaster recovery, missing documentation, and solving the wrong problems. Each mistake includes a real-world scenario, business impact, and concrete fixes with AWS-focused code examples. Concludes with a production readiness checklist covering infrastructure, security, observability, reliability, and documentation.

## Full article

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Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#iac](https://daily.dev/tags/iac)

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