capacity-recovery · 2026-01-25 · 10 min read

The Capacity Lie: Why Hiring More Engineers Won't Fix Your Operations

The 2025 SRE Report exposes the truth: despite record investments, operational toil has risen. You don't have a people problem—you have a physics problem.

  • Capacity Recovery
  • operational drag
  • SRE
  • Entropy
  • Structured Execution
  • IT Operations
  • Physics of IT

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