This is the first of two parts. Being a CTO in a burgeoning tech company is akin to juggling burning torches. The onus of being agile, fast and secure can often overwhelm compact teams, especially because of the intricacies of cloud development. In 2023, my company Drop Bio Health, which offers at-home health tracking through blood biomarkers and lifestyle analysis, decided to simplify cloud development to focus on core product value development. I had been reconsidering our approach to DevOps t...